Editing bestsellers, mostly fiction. Used to run newspapers and magazines. Former translator and interpreter. Veteran. Favorite genre? Great writing.
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Authors, don't forget that rest and recuperation are also parts of the writing process.
Obstacles such as plot holes, character deficiencies, or mistakes in voice or tone are all easier to solve if you're not exhausted.
Find time and space to take care of yourselves.
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Respectfully, it's not huge news until the AP embraces the Oxford comma.
HUGE NEWS for editors: the AP has changed its style guide. It's now "healthcare" (not "health care") and "childcare" (not "child care") apstylebook.com/ap_stylebook…
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Free to read for the next five days.
Today we publish Granta 172: Badlands. Read the summer edition online for free for the next five days or subscribe today and receive unlimited access to this issue, as well as our archive.
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"When I am alone, working, I never think of my readers . . . I think about the problem I am creating for myself as I go along. The problem is . . . the difficulty of reconciling multiple registers of consciousness and language."
R.I.P., Fanny Howe.
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#FannyHowe
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My dear author friends,
Your novel should be a series of progressions. Let it breathe and reveal itself in its own time across the passage of the pages. The moment you try to force it, you lose the magic of the storytelling.
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Let's use our words this weekend, friends.
Words are power and fire and life. They can't stand against all that.
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I hope this happens. I've edited a considerable number of Canadian authors, and this would be a welcome addition to my library.
Also worth noting the Canadian Oxford Dictionary hasn't been updated in decades.
canadianenglishdictionary.ca…
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One day—decades from now, when I eventually retire from editing—this is how I want to spend my days.
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Just another weekday here in Vegas. Things don't get crazy until the weekends.
Las Vegas - Casino Security on the LV Strip responding on an attempt-to-locate - caller reporting her BF drank a “cannabis infused drink” for the first time - caller says he “went crazy”, stripped off his clothes & ran down the hall - white male wearing only white tube socks
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