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I believe we can all write, and all have stories to tell. “The Anatomy Of Construction is a graphic novel in development that is designed to unlock the writer in everyone- from novice, to genius.
Because it is a draft, I welcome your feedback. T
Recent Posts Tagged With 'editing'
The cow and the man, both gone out of sight
There comes a time when you are done with editing. You will know when that time, and you must make a committed decision.This doesn’t mean you can’t make small typographical changes, but it means i...
The cow forgotten, leaving the man alone
When you are editing be dispassionate- Natalie Goldman calls it “Samurai mode” in her book “Writing down the bones” Eliminate all unnecessary words.Your editing pen, is a sword of life. You cu...
Riding home on the cows back
In the second redraft, the story will be apparent.The editing will not be complete. You have story, but you must bring it out into the world properly.Write to be read.Remove all the punctuation and gr...
Herding the cow
The first draft will never be perfect; a rough draft does not make a marketable product. There will be typing mistakes, grammatical train wrecks, unnecessary words, and misshapen ambiguities. ...
Books are never finished...
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.Letting go is hard to do. Editing can be a very difficult thing to get into for some of us, the actual writing being so much easier (!?!). ...
Say "Radish" exactly one-hundred and forty-two times
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page.What does it mean if you dream that someone keeps sending comments to your blog saying your posts are great, but too long? Oh well, never min...
Be Confident
Click on the image to the right to view the full size page. I started thinking about how I gather all the little stories together to fit around one big story. I’m not a terribly creative person...
It's the words you don't use...
Click on the image to the right to see the full size page. Your writing can lead you on adventures if you point it at the things you love. Adventures aren’t always good, but nor are they alway...
The wrench, blogger and I.
Click on the above image to see the full size page.This is my editing desk- the wrench lives there, for obvious reasons, but some of the other things deserve and explanation. i keep sticky tape there ...
Decomposing and Resurrections.
Click the above to see the full size page.With some pride I'd like to note I'm proud of this page- it looks good, it feels good and says something helpful. Proud is how I felt when I read back over th...
What do I dislike about writing?
Click on the above to see the full size page.Time to admit my sins... I hate editing- I hate it soooo much. I have a fresh idea, I reel it in, then drop it, move onto the next one. If I were some sort...
The Anatomy Of Construction (Pasrt XLVI)
Click on the above to see the full size image.OK, a deal is a deal here's the link to the first chapter of the book I promised I'd bring you, one chapter every day until it's done. On the blog itself ...
The Anatomy Of Construction (Part XLII)
Click on the above image to see the full size version.The humble comma has many uses, about twenty of them in fact. There are some basic rules of thumb to apply to the comma. the most important one I ...
The Anatomy Of Construction (Part XXXI)
Click on the above image for the full size version. Well, call this an object lesson in the nedd to have distance between yourself and proofing. I sat down last night and proofed the page right after...