[stylist] Various Editting Styles

Tue Mar 3 04:36:36 UTC 2009

Please, do tell, if you know how to do it.  I've contemplated learning how 
to do it.  But now my husband is retired and will be home all the time to do 
it.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "James Canaday M.A.  N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:50 PM
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [stylist] Various Editting Styles

> 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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