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Review – Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do

by marissa | Dec 13, 2013 | About Editing, Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)

“Authors really depend on editors for one thing: the truth.” Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do, by Gerald Gross, is a collection of essays by editors, illuminating all the different things that go on in that strange editorial realm...

How important is rewriting?

by marissa | Nov 4, 2013 | About Editing, Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)

Love this answer by Robet McKee in an interview on Storylink.com. Debra Eckerling asked him, How important is the process of rewriting? Robert McKee: “It’s absolutely critical. I quote Hemingway in my book who said, “The first draft of anything is...

Letting Go of the Final Draft

by marissa | Sep 8, 2013 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)

I feel sad when I finish the last touches on a manuscript I’ve been editing and have to say goodbye to the characters, especially after spending months being so involved in their lives and every move. But I can’t imagine what it’s like for an author,...

David Foster Wallace on Television’s Value to Fiction Writers

by marissa | Sep 7, 2013 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)

David Foster Wallace, on how television can be great for writers… First, television does a lot of our predatory human research for us. American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on. But...

The Secret to Being a Great Storyteller

by marissa | Sep 4, 2013 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)

The people who master an art like storytelling are not aliens with freakish talents and powers; they’re just the people who care the most. It takes a massive amount of self-discipline and faith to devote years and years to getting incrementally better at a...
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Analogy is enormously powerful. In fact, one could argue that we understand everything except for the physical world of falling objects by analogy. If you look at our language it’s almost all metaphorical.

— Stephen Pinker

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To be an editor, you have to be a reader. It’s the number one qualification. Because you could have all the editorial tools, but if you’re not a responsive reader you won’t sense where the problems lie.

— Robert Gottlieb.

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Analogy is enormously powerful. In fact, one could argue that we understand everything except for the physical world of falling objects by analogy. If you look at our language it’s almost all metaphorical.

— Stephen Pinker

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