The artful edit

on the practice of editing yourself

256 pages

English language

Published Feb. 4, 2007 by W.W. Norton.

ISBN:
978-0-393-05752-2
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OCLC Number:
122424689

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3 stars

What ages would I recommend it too? Fourteen to twenty-one.

Length? A few weeks.

Characters? No characters.

Setting? Writring.

Written approximately? 2007.

Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? Yes. Not in a good way.

Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Yes. Please provide a defined terms section.

Short storyline: A $5.00 word romp through the edit process. Do not attempt to read without a writer's dictionary. Or a computer close at hand to look them up.

Notes for the reader: After a few dozen uses of the undefined word "leitmotiv" I was finally at a computer to look it up. Then, it was finally defined, loosely, on page 81. Needless to say, there are dozens of words that need to be defined that are not. A few I might have known the definition to a few decades ago. Others may be newly …

Subjects

  • Editing