editing – Page 4 – Confabulator Cafe

Start. Stop. Fix it. Ugh.

Ted Boone - October 19, 2012

I can keep this week’s post very short. The easiest thing about writing? Writing. Telling the story, inventing characters, creating places and events and conflicts and disasters. Delving into the motivations of the cast of sundry folk that make the plot twist and turn. That’s easy. The penultimate hardest part? Starting. Pushing past the inertia of […]

Write for Yourself; Edit for Others

Sara Lundberg - September 4, 2012

I never worried about judgment of my writing before I started to submit my work. As I continue to put myself out there, and now that I have my first short story published, I find myself suddenly paranoid about what people are going to think when they read my stuff. I don’t think it ever […]

Your Editor: The Frenemy You Will Love to Hate

Aspen Junge - April 7, 2012

When I first started working at my current job, the HR department emailed everybody what they considered a fun game— find all 10 spelling and grammar errors in a page of text, and you could win a gift card. I found fourteen. OK, so at least two “errors” were more in the realm of stylistic […]

Exercises in Failure & the Editing Process

Ashley M. Hill - April 6, 2012

I hate editing. I have failed every goal I’ve ever set when editing. I stumble in the same spot every time. It’s not killing my darlings. Whatever, kill those bastards. I never liked them anyway. (Oh my god that’s such a lie, please, come back, babies.) I like going through the novel and finding the […]

Ruling Them All

Jason Arnett - April 6, 2012

I’m a fan of rules. Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing have been invaluable to me as I’ve made progress towards being a better storyteller. Now that I’m in the realm of having to actually edit the things that I’m writing before I share them with anyone, I have a new set of rules to […]