As a writing tutor at my local community college, I've learned a tremendous amount about how to help beginning writers discover what they have to say, as well as how to say it clearly. I hope some of that skill has found its way into my own writing and editing process, too ( Read more... )

Today's edittorrent post, Jennifer is right... deep POV and "head words", discusses putting the emphasis on a POV character's realization of a feeling or thought.

As I'm one of those writers who often edits out the "extra" words, I found edittorrent's take on this interesting, since whichever editor wrote today's post doesn't feel it's necessary ( Read more... )

Via cranky_editors: Bad Spellchk Theetar.

Enjoy.

Sean Williams (ladnews) posted a notice here about a panel discussion in which he participated on SF Signal: Mind Meld: How Do Media Tie-In Novels Affect SF/F?. I found the various responses very interesting, but I was especially intrigued by Kristine Kathryn Rusch's article of a few years ago, which she linked to in her response.

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This was posted by lunalelle over on cranky_editors:


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I've been uncertain where people got their userpics. So, I finally checked out LJ's Help pages, and found out there are multiple communities with said images. Plus, perusing these pages, I realize that they are often enough just fragments of Real Art(TM), so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is considered fair use. I've created a gallery for ( Read more... )