Hi Everyone,
I’m back with two of my favorite editors, Beth K. Vogt and Edie Melson!
So Beth (BKV) and Edie (EGM), here is the first question from our readers:
How much change is too much macro editing? Is editing ever a bad thing?
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Editing By Twos: An Editing Checklist of Sorts
I’ve run across a number of editing checklists as I’ve read through the blogosphere. Seems every writer has one. (Google “editing checklists” and in 0.17 seconds you get 983,000 results.) Nothing wrong with checklists. I usually peruse them and think, “Good points. I need to remember some of ‘em the next time I’m editing a manuscript.” Do I ever refer back to any of them? Nope. Why not? Well … to be honest, most of the checklists are l-o-n-g. They are more like editing encyclopedias rather than checklists. Do writers really do all those dozens of steps? If I could distill editing down to the basics, what would those key points be? I would divide editing into two phases: a Big Picture Edit and Fine Line Edits. A Big Picture […]
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