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March 24th 2010 18:20
Reporting back from holiday with one of my favourite quotes about editing fiction:

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. - Elie Wiesel

Hope all you brave NaNoEdMo participants are on track for clocking 50 hrs.
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Quote on Editing (3)

March 5th 2010 22:31
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. - Truman Capote

One thing to bear in mind for NaNoEdMo: If in doubt, cutting it is better than leaving it in.
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February 17th 2010 22:08
Mark Twain said: "I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice."

A bit of handy advice for NaNoEdMo and editing in general, I reckon.
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Editing dialogue

November 23rd 2009 22:54
Fictional dialogue in first drafts are usually boring. Most of the time. At least in my first drafts. That's why I take Elisabeth Bowen's Seven Rules for Dialogue to heart when I edit.
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