Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?
Update: 2015-11-15
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The microphones again find us aboard the Independence of the Seas*, to talk about how terribly ugly this manuscript is, and what we can do to make it pretty. In this episode we drill down on line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph revisions. This stage of the revision process is where our prose gets wordsmithed. This episode runs long, touching on:
* Punching up the pacing
* Turning things upside down
* Parallelisms
* Adverbial compression,
* The pyramid of abstraction
* Free and direct thought
* Replacing negative-information descriptions
* extreme editing exercises like "one sentence per concept."
Obviously if you want more than just the bullet points you'll need to have a listen...
*NOTE: Registration is now open for the 2016 Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat!
This episode was engineered aboard The Independence of the Seas by Bert Grimm, and mastered ashore in a volcanic caldera by Alex Jackson.
* Punching up the pacing
* Turning things upside down
* Parallelisms
* Adverbial compression,
* The pyramid of abstraction
* Free and direct thought
* Replacing negative-information descriptions
* extreme editing exercises like "one sentence per concept."
Obviously if you want more than just the bullet points you'll need to have a listen...
*NOTE: Registration is now open for the 2016 Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat!
This episode was engineered aboard The Independence of the Seas by Bert Grimm, and mastered ashore in a volcanic caldera by Alex Jackson.
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