Category Archive for Editing Tips
Class of 2k12: Facial Expressions
published on February 9, 2012
I have a post up over on the Class of 2k12 blog. It’s all about how to show what your characters are feeling through facial expressions. It includes some images that have helped…
What is the editing process really like?
published on October 20, 2011A few people have noticed that I’ve been conspicuously absent from both this blog and Twitter. For…
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written by Cory Jackson
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written by Cory Jackson
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Battle of the Betas
published on August 19, 2010
The lovely and brave Sarah Enni offered herself up as a guinea pig for a little beta experiment. Six writers will take on beta reading a single page of…
Editing, Wordles, and the Color Gray
published on February 2, 2010I am editing.
Pause.
I. AM. EDITING.
If you haven’t written a novel, you have no idea how tedious this process is. On the plus side, my agent’s changes have been minimal. On the also-plus side, I have taken this opportunity to…
Editing Tip #2: Beginnings (Abusing the Pronoun – Verb Combo)
published on October 21, 2009While laboring away on my manuscript, I obsessed over the passive verb problem. I switched out the “I was” and “She became,” obliterating most of the sleepy “to be” verbs from my novel. Proud of my work, I…
Editing Tip #1: Passive Verbs
published on October 19, 2009Every six weeks I submit a packet of writing to my Spalding MFA professor. She then sends the packet back to me with margin notations and summary notes. Many of my mistakes are common to writers, so I thought…
