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Editing things!
Editing things!
Geh. I've been gone too long. Things are happening in profusion.
Anyway, back to the actual topic: I'm editing my NaNo from November right now. It's currently title-less, so I'm calling it MITWITCH. Stands for Manuscript Is Truly Wicked If Titles Can't Happen.
How do you guys go about editing? I've separated my process into several different "rounds": First-round involves reading through the original document and making notes with red pen in the margins, filling up plot holes with skellies and marking passages that are redundant or just plain silly. Second-round is typing it up, incorporating the edits, printing it out... etc. etc.
So far I'm a quarter of the way through first-round edits and things are not looking good for MITWITCH. Thankfully, it doesn't need a revamp, but there's still a lot of things about it that need a lot of fixing.
Ideas? Questions? Whateverisms?
Yava: xybh
--L
submitted by L
(May 12, 2013 - 5:09 pm)
(May 12, 2013 - 5:09 pm)
I don't know if I want to finish my April... I might just rewrite it in July. Except that I have this amazing idea that I really want to write and is haunting me.
(May 19, 2013 - 8:33 am)
I find that if I'm retyping something, my head just automatically edits and revises it as I go along.
(May 20, 2013 - 7:29 pm)
Some books I read I automatically go into "editor mode". It's fun
(May 22, 2013 - 9:19 pm)
@ Maggie The Whovian:
I totally agree. Sometimes I actually take a pencil, cross out what is printed and change the sentence.
(May 24, 2013 - 2:44 pm)
I will get mad at books. Especially bad ones. And worksheets that my teachers write.
(May 24, 2013 - 4:13 pm)
I once got a thorough ribbing for correcting a worksheet on semicolons where half of the examples were written wrong.
(May 27, 2013 - 9:30 pm)
I went a little crazy on the New York State Tests. There was an article about tracking whales, and I ended up ranting on how it could cause a dystopian society. And other things. It was awesome.
(May 28, 2013 - 5:49 pm)