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...
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edit
Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...
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.
One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
[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...
If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...
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.
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.'
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't...
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.
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.
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.
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.
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