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ostarella ([personal profile] ostarella) wrote2009-09-30 08:11 am
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Fiction Factor Newsletter

Fiction Factor Newsletter


That time of the month again! :D

http://www.fictionfactor.com/



Editing Made Easy by Lee Masterson


http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/editing.html





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[personal profile] beckyblack 2009-09-30 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Good tips! If I'm editing on screen I also like to change the font to a different one than when I was writing. And make it bigger too, to shorten the lines. fewer words on the line seems to stop my eye sliding along and filling in things that aren't there.

It's incredible though how no matter how many times I reread - and believe me, that's A LOT - stuff still slips through. And when I read it a few months later it leaps out and smacks me between the eyes.

Which it why letting it rest too between writing and editing it good. Gives you more chance of spotting both big and small issues once you have that distance.