A Simple Guide To Beautifully Efficient Editing—Instead of a Soul-Sucking Game of Whack-A-Mole — Fenwick
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A Simple Guide To Beautifully Efficient Editing—Instead of a Soul-Sucking Game of Whack-A-Mole — Fenwick
Editing[*] is deliberating—choosing a word or a thought, dismissing or advancing; it comes up often in this book as a way to describe artistic decision-making. And in my journalism career, editing had served me well. My temperament was well suited to it. I always had trouble writing—I was too self-conscious (you can see a pattern). And I couldn’t
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There’s definitely a place for stream of consciousness. My sense is that the more analytical, slow, and entrenched my editing process for long form is, the better my one-take typewriter essays are. There’s a world in which the patterns of the craft become automatic, and over 50% of what you make is ready to go. I think it’s extremely rare to start
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