[stylist] Various Editting Styles

Tue Mar 3 03:50:34 UTC 2009

wow,
those sound good.

you know blind people can operate snowblowers.
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 08:52 PM 3/2/2009, you wrote:
>We got twelve to thirteen inches of snow dumped on us.   David cleared the
>walk from the house to the street.   One of our neighbors cleared 
>the sidewalk,
>and I dug out the driveway.   I'll feel it tomorrow.
>Otherwise, I spent the day rereading some of my past work:   One book I had
>labeled "Old Garbage."   Old bits of writing often give us the best chance to
>sharpen our editing skills, but in this case, I had to concur with 
>the label on
>the book.   Old garbage indeed!
>All my Tuesday activities got canceled.   Maybe I'll spend the day writing.
>Stuck inside, between chapters, I baked Humantashen, which are triangular
>tarts, in honor of the holiday of Purim (Next week).   Now if only I can keep
>myself from eating them until we get to Chorale where we plan to share them.
>Lori
>
>In a message dated 3/2/09 3:51:53 PM, fowlers at syix.com writes:
>
>
> > It rained like anything here yesterday, and its raining on and off today. I
> > might have to swim to school tomorrow.
> >     I too like to give things a cold read, usually at the point where I
> > have finished the draft and done the first round of editing. Often I get so
> > in love with what I'm writing that I fail to catch obvious mistakes. Its my
> > baby and of course its perfect, right? After a couple of days, or a week if
> > I have it, I feel I can give it a look through fresher eyes. Then the
> > mistakes that I missed the first time jump out at me. I failed to 
> do this to
> > a thing I wrote yesterday and have cause to regret it.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> > Behalf Of James Canaday M.A. N6YR
> > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:21 PM
> > To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [stylist] Various Editting Styles
> >
> > oh go play in the snow.
> >
> > blind people can throw snowballs too!  your storm hit us first, we have
> > about two inches of snow on the ground here in Kansas.
> >
> > for me, I don't find the editor part of my mind is so different from the
> > composer part of me.  and often if I am coming back to a text 
> after a day or
> > more I have to reread it all the way through, reread all of what's been
> > composed thus far, to feel like I'm in the right place to compose.  but in
> > rereading of course it ticks off some items I need to "fix" before I can
> > compose.
> > jc
> >
> > Jim Canaday M.A.
> > Lawrence, KS
> >
> > At 01:18 PM 3/2/2009, you wrote:
> > >Judith,
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks for your inspiring comment!
> > >
> > >Jim,
> > >
> > >On the editting front, it just depends on my mood. More often than not,
> > >I'll write a chapter or part of one, let it sit for a day or two, and
> > >then go back and edit it before going on, just to fix the little
> > >things. I find out that sometimes I get too much into editor mode when
> > >I'm supposed to be writing, and that closes the door to my subconcious.
> > >Like I say: there is no set formula. To each his own.
> > >Minor note: We got a snow day here in Virginia. Great for writing!
> > >I'll go do some now!
> > >
> > >From,
> > >Chelsea
> > >
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