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Tag Archives: editing
A Lesson on Writing, Gardening, and Life from Maya Angelou
“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished, and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.” Maya Angelou Sometimes, I find it interesting that I began to write again at the same time I started to garden. Perhaps, this … Continue reading
Setting Sail in New Winds
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade wind in your sails. Explore. … Continue reading
Where’s the Beef? The Art of the Edit – Flash Fiction
When I was a kid (that’s what we called each other – none of us was a “child”) I read everything I could get my hands on, including spending my whopping 25 cent allowance on comic books, an original form … Continue reading
In Pursuit of the Perfect
I don’t know if I have any friends or readers left, having abandoned this blog for such a long time. How can it be five months? I stopped blogging to try to pour myself into my last edit of The … Continue reading
To Let You Eat Cake
I am reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing. In it he says, “When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is not the story.” That quote has produced varied thoughts for me. … Continue reading
And Now You Know the Rest of the Story?
My mother had a thing for Paul Harvey. She loved to listen to his radio broadcasts and in particular to the stories he told. Harvey broadcast his own daily news taken from the headlines, filled with the foibles of humanity, … Continue reading
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“Writing is Thinking…That’s Why It’s so Hard.”
David McCullough is a favorite writer/historian of mine. I just real several articles by him so stay tuned…there are more quotes to come. But my very favorite is, “You can’t learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you … Continue reading
A Diamond in the Rough
I remember times in my childhood when my mother would describe someone, often one of the airmen she supervised, as a “diamond in the rough.” By this she usually meant that the person she was referring to, while lacking in … Continue reading
Writing is Like That!
Thomas Edison said “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” The same could be said for writing I think. I am slogging through what I hope will be my last edit. I have the wonderful editing my sister-in-law, who is … Continue reading
Here a little nip, Change it there a touch, Editing is so much ‘fun’, It won’t hurt much!
Commas, and quotations, and syntax, oh my! I went into writing my book thinking I had a leg up since I was an English major undergrad, taught high school English, and wrote tightly worded grants that actually were funded. But … Continue reading
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