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- November 21st, 2012, 3:24 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Anachronistic Metaphors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6602
Re: Anachronistic Metaphors
I will say that there is a context issue. I would readily accept something like "Character Y talked at a machine gun pace" in the right novel with the right tone. Something like noir crime or an old hard-boiled detective character. Yeah, it would work in those contexts, but those genres t...
- November 20th, 2012, 8:44 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Major Blunder with New E-Book
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9743
Re: Major Blunder with New E-Book
I have to say, 10^6 words is almost unimaginably long. I say that as a reader who really enjoys sitting down with a book that's thick enough to be used as a murder weapon. I also say it as a copyeditor. If I were to contract for a project like this, it would take me at least a couple of months to fi...
- November 20th, 2012, 8:14 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: What's your editing style?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16970
Re: What's your editing style?
If I'm editing my own work, I prefer to print it out and mark it up. As others have said, changing the format makes it easier to see with fresh eyes. I do a lot of work copyediting manuscripts for others, though, and in that case I find that on-screen editing works fine. Since I'm reading something ...
- November 20th, 2012, 8:00 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Anachronistic Metaphors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6602
Re: Anachronistic Metaphors
Bugs me, too. It's kind of like movies that use anachronistic music. The early-80s synth pieces in Peter Weir's Gallipoli really took me out of the movie. I think the reason for this is just lazy writing. People search through their brains for a piquant simile or metaphor, find one, and forget what ...
- August 4th, 2012, 1:04 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Breaking up Large Chunks of Monologue
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4477
Re: Breaking up Large Chunks of Monologue
I think this is the best advice: 1) Write it how you want to tell it, then try to read it as a reader. What pieces are interesting, but not important? Really take the time to figure out what the purpose of the monologue is. When you find something in the monologue that doesn't serve the ultimate pur...
- August 4th, 2012, 12:55 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Let me copyedit a chapter of your book at no charge
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1767
Let me copyedit a chapter of your book at no charge
I'm a semi-newbie copyeditor in the process of expanding my CV. I'm looking for original manuscripts on which to hone my skills. I will copyedit an excerpt of whatever you're working on at no charge. I'd like it if your excerpt was between 10 and 30 pages. Send me a private message, and I'll give yo...
- August 3rd, 2012, 12:25 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Favorite Animation Character
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9752
Re: Favorite Animation Character
Homer Simpson.
I mean, come on.
I mean, come on.
- August 3rd, 2012, 12:21 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 308448
Re: What are you reading now?
The Infinite Book, by John D. Barrow.
Mind-bending stuff about the nature of infinity—mathematical, physical, and temporal.
Mind-bending stuff about the nature of infinity—mathematical, physical, and temporal.
- August 3rd, 2012, 12:00 am
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Are Publishers Going Too Far?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11947
Re: Are Publishers Going Too Far?
Eroticizing a Jane Austen novel is definitely stupid, but I don't think it's anything to get too worked up over. Intelligent people—the kinds of people who enjoy good literature and with whom you want to discuss good literature—aren't going to read idiotic reboots of classics. Or, if they do read th...