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Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Nov 15, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The microphones again find us aboard the Independence of the Seas*, to talk about how terribly ugly this manuscript is, and what we can do to make it pretty. In this episode we drill down on line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph revisions. This stage of the revision process is where our prose gets wordsmithed. This episode runs long, touching on:
Punching up the pacing
Turning things upside down
Parallelisms
Adverbial compression,
The pyramid of abstraction
Free and direct thought
Replacing negative-information descriptions
extreme editing exercises like "one sentence per concept."
Obviously if you want more than just the bullet points you'll need to have a listen...
*NOTE: Registration is now open for the 2016 Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat!
This episode was engineered aboard The Independence of the Seas by Bert Grimm, and mastered ashore in a volcanic caldera by Alex Jackson.
Punching up the pacing
Turning things upside down
Parallelisms
Adverbial compression,
The pyramid of abstraction
Free and direct thought
Replacing negative-information descriptions
extreme editing exercises like "one sentence per concept."
Obviously if you want more than just the bullet points you'll need to have a listen...
*NOTE: Registration is now open for the 2016 Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat!
This episode was engineered aboard The Independence of the Seas by Bert Grimm, and mastered ashore in a volcanic caldera by Alex Jackson.
Released:
Nov 15, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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