Tag: author
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Flexibility and the Writers Capacity for Growth and Learning
The novel or short story is first and foremost a source of entertainment, what consumers turn to among myriad of choices, to provide rest and relaxation, from a world moving at breakneck speed. To insure the most comfortable reading experience, writers want to offer a story with interesting plot, centered on characters about the reader…
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Planning for Editing: The Author vs. the Novice Writer
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward re-writing. The writer, professional or not, looks forward to the opportunity of excising words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters that do not work and improving those that do. Many a would-be writer thinks whatever he puts down on paper is by that act…
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Revising vs. Editing
Writers revise. Editors edit. –Author, editor and journalist, Rhonda Crowder Good novels must undergo both processes. As to who carries them out on a work of fiction is a matter of subtle and often unconscious debate. Author, editor and journalist, Rhonda Crowder whom I recently interviewed on my weekly blog talk radio show, Book Talk…