tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post3667210878517666680..comments2024-03-10T05:18:37.521-04:00Comments on Stories From A Starry Sky: A to Z: E is for editingTeresa Cypherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-12969697937153696062014-04-07T15:23:17.994-04:002014-04-07T15:23:17.994-04:00Thanks, Ryshia! Thanks, Ryshia! Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-2812829595232975622014-04-07T15:23:02.156-04:002014-04-07T15:23:02.156-04:00Thanks, so much, Vishal! :-)Thanks, so much, Vishal! :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-41179048574936770682014-04-07T15:22:27.669-04:002014-04-07T15:22:27.669-04:00Thank goodness for the friend with a keen eye. Th...Thank goodness for the friend with a keen eye. Thanks for visiting, Stephen! :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-34317278800355116272014-04-07T15:21:49.549-04:002014-04-07T15:21:49.549-04:00Haha! I can relate. Reminds me of that Oscar Wilde...Haha! I can relate. Reminds me of that Oscar Wilde quote: <br />“I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.”<br /><br />― Oscar Wilde <br /><br />Thanks for visiting, Grazona! :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-57965423131252847892014-04-07T15:20:18.937-04:002014-04-07T15:20:18.937-04:00:-) I love it! This is the best example ever of ho...:-) I love it! This is the best example ever of how effective it is to step away from a ms. :-) Thanks, Carrie-Anne!Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-9596532852038060072014-04-07T00:26:21.475-04:002014-04-07T00:26:21.475-04:00I was away from my first Russian historical and a ...I was away from my first Russian historical and a number of other books for a good 10 years because they were held hostage on obsolete file formats on disks! When I finally figured out how to open, convert, and reformat them (with my trusty external disk drive), it was like reading them for the first time all over again. Having a decade away from a book is the ultimate in perspective and having objective eyes to edit with.Carrie-Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05810154378449825641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-89861436444797178522014-04-06T20:31:48.256-04:002014-04-06T20:31:48.256-04:00Nice post. Editing my own stuff is SO HARD! If I&#...Nice post. Editing my own stuff is SO HARD! If I'm not careful, I can get caught in a loop of reading and changing things over & over & over & over...I'm definitely going to look into your Weekend Writing Warriors group after the A to Z Challenge is over!Grazonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18147019502221385912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-76028641207069066412014-04-06T19:09:03.575-04:002014-04-06T19:09:03.575-04:00Here from A-Z Blogging. Good tips on editing as t...Here from A-Z Blogging. Good tips on editing as that can make or break a book. Ryshia Kenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10950150149473063859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-84308301950722982014-04-06T09:31:33.123-04:002014-04-06T09:31:33.123-04:00Nice tips and crit partner makes sense to me since...Nice tips and crit partner makes sense to me since I am not able to edit my own work, be it the blog or otherwise. Lovely pointers.Vishal Bheeroohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18229153100959064360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-27582396402612005302014-04-06T01:20:27.210-04:002014-04-06T01:20:27.210-04:00I find reading my work aloud helps tremendously wh...I find reading my work aloud helps tremendously when I'm editing. I also have a friend with a keen eye. <br /><br />Good looking blog. I'm also an A-Z Challenge participant. Stephen B. Bagleyhttp://stephenbbagley.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-18685451327219939852014-04-05T22:26:23.292-04:002014-04-05T22:26:23.292-04:00All good things to add, EE. :-) Thank you! :-)All good things to add, EE. :-) Thank you! :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-64394612083204472212014-04-05T22:25:58.397-04:002014-04-05T22:25:58.397-04:00Thanks, Jerry :-) !Thanks, Jerry :-) !Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-48346319224976300642014-04-05T22:25:41.399-04:002014-04-05T22:25:41.399-04:00SSS was very helpful to me. I experienced a lot of...SSS was very helpful to me. I experienced a lot of growth as a writer while posting on SixSunday. The girls really came up with a neat idea. :-)<br /><br />It is hard to find a crit partner, or two, or three. I think it's something we're considering at WeWriWa...having a page to list crit requests, crit partner requests, Beta readers, Alpha readers. <br /><br />I haven't found your missing comment. :-) But I'm sure glad you left this one. :-) Thanks! :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-63712022704847756762014-04-05T22:21:00.074-04:002014-04-05T22:21:00.074-04:00So true, Munir, so very true! :-) It's nice t...So true, Munir, so very true! :-) It's nice to see your words here. Hope all is well with you. :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-67487817957184297362014-04-05T22:19:58.326-04:002014-04-05T22:19:58.326-04:00All so true, Lily! I could recite parts of my book...All so true, Lily! I could recite parts of my book, verbatim. ;-) Tribe is thriving and expanding. :-) Thanks for visiting--and I'll be back to visit you soon, as well. :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-24115773208075138282014-04-05T21:15:35.924-04:002014-04-05T21:15:35.924-04:00Not that I can think of, Ian. :-) Get that book o...Not that I can think of, Ian. :-) Get that book out! I can hardly wait to read it. :-) Thanks for visiting!Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-64573351569957720402014-04-05T20:07:47.174-04:002014-04-05T20:07:47.174-04:00that's excellent advice... I noticed the print...that's excellent advice... I noticed the print proof copy helps a lot, and also beta-readers that have a great eye for typos. EEGiorgihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11477791781485536775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-68709314104349216062014-04-05T18:30:54.119-04:002014-04-05T18:30:54.119-04:00Surely this is a site well worth seeing.Surely this is a site well worth seeing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349087080262856079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-40312433108545113792014-04-05T18:08:03.313-04:002014-04-05T18:08:03.313-04:00I happened to come back here and somehow my commen...I happened to come back here and somehow my comment disappeared. SSS was a great help and when I get back to the novel I'll get back to WWW also. Biggest problem is don't have anyone these days to throw around ideas withsusanhttp://authorsusankoenig.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-32303048793403380582014-04-05T17:32:10.182-04:002014-04-05T17:32:10.182-04:00Wow! I never thought about having the kindle read ...Wow! I never thought about having the kindle read it to me. what file format do you have to use. so that tts will work? Thanks for visiting . :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-27848757171753605972014-04-05T17:29:01.684-04:002014-04-05T17:29:01.684-04:00Glad you had that experience, Debbie . How did th...Glad you had that experience, Debbie . How did the fundraiser do? A wonderful cause . Thanks for visiting . :-)Teresa Cypherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940430996766842518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-12897515994150520712014-04-05T16:56:43.918-04:002014-04-05T16:56:43.918-04:00Editing is such an important word. We shall not fo...Editing is such an important word. We shall not forget it as long as we write. MunirGhiasuddinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05232362559666320301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-73633921856413018622014-04-05T14:16:02.738-04:002014-04-05T14:16:02.738-04:00Timely advice- I'm on the last two chapters of...Timely advice- I'm on the last two chapters of The Novel and the budget is as diminutive as ever- and I know that The End really just means 'of this draft, for now.' Exhausting. But if writing is what you want: you do it! Hope your tribe are thriving- and keeping you smiling: I'll be back :-) Lisa Southardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09711376747848601409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-68401355619288119112014-04-05T14:02:51.937-04:002014-04-05T14:02:51.937-04:00One of these days I might be able to afford a prof...One of these days I might be able to afford a professional editor, but meanwhile I like to attack on multiple fronts. <br /><br />Self-editing gets me a long way (I'm a pedantic nitpicker), then critique groups, and I have no problems leaving a manuscript aside for months while I work on something else before re-reading again. Now about to do a final proof-read in hard copy, out loud, and in a different font. <br /><br />Have I missed anything? :)<br />Botanisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12098709722475364465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696914224277711875.post-49768838888953398182014-04-05T13:45:35.198-04:002014-04-05T13:45:35.198-04:00Great ideas! I also get my Kindle to read it to me...Great ideas! I also get my Kindle to read it to me. It reads exactly what is there and if I follow, I sometimes wonder, why did it read DESCEND when it should have read DECENT. Oops. I pick up a lot of typos this way. Tanya Reimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293977395016853814noreply@blogger.com