Last night in my blog group meeting we were having quite the discussion about editing. Some of us find editing easy. Some of us find it hard. Some of us take longer to edit than it did to write the post. Then we examined certain sentences in our “About Me” sections. We talked about the use of hyphens and commas, among other grammatical things. It was a great meeting. We all felt we learned a lot.
Driving home, I was thinking how I often wished there was a clear, concise, list of things we writers should look for when editing our work, aside from reading a whole book. Then I remembered a blog post by an editor that did an organized job of clearly listing things a writer should consider when editing. I saved the link since February and I’m proud of myself for being able to find it to share with all my writer friends today.
This is a post from The Steve Laube Agency blog. They absolutely have the best posts for writers. They are all editors and agents and tell you like it is from right behind their desks. Check it out:
The Writer As Editor
This is one post, but links to others that came before this one appear on the bottom. Happy editing!
And so, as another day goes by, I’m waiting for my Cape Cod Children’s Writers group to arrive, we will do a little editing of our own tonight, and…I have written.
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