Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edit
Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.
You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editi...
When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...
I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only co...
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you'r...
Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form.
Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything.
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades...
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)
I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.
I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
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