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5 editor’s secrets to help you write like a pro
1. Sentences can only do one thing at a time.
Have you ever heard a four-year-old run out of breath before she can finish her thought? I edit a lot of sentences that work the same way. You need a noun, you need a verb, you might need an object. Give some serious thought to stopping right there.
Sentences are building blocks, not bungee cords; they’re not meant to be stretched to the limit. I’m not saying you necessarily want a Hemingway-esque series of clipped short sentences, but most writers benefit from dividing their longest sentences into shorter, more muscular ones.
2. Paragraphs can only do one thing at a time.
A paragraph supports a single idea. Construct complex arguments by combining simple ideas that follow logically. Every time you address a new idea, add a line break. Short paragraphs are the most readable; few should be more than three or four sentences long. This is more important if you’re writing for the Web.
3. Look closely at -ing
Nouns ending in -ing are fine. (Strong writing, IT consulting, great fishing.) But constructions like “I am running,” “a forum for building consensus,” or “The new team will be managing” are inherently weak. Rewrite them to “I run,” “a forum to build consensus,” and “the team will manage.” You’re on the right track when the rewrite has fewer words (see below).
(If for some insane reason you want to get all geeky about this, you can read the Wikipedia article on gerunds and present participles. But you don’t have to know the underlying grammatical rules to make this work. Rewrite -ing when you can, and your writing will grow muscles you didn’t know it had.)
4. Omit unnecessary words.
I know we all heard this in high school, but we weren’t listening. (Mostly because it’s hard.) It’s doubly hard when you’re editing your own writing—we put all that work into getting words onto the page, and by god we need a damned good reason to get rid of them.
Here’s your damned good reason: extra words drain life from your work. The fewer words used to express an idea, the more punch it has. Therefore:
Summer months
Regional level
The entire country
On a daily basis (usually best rewritten to “every day”)
She knew that it was good.
Very
(I just caught one above: four-year-old little girl)
You can nearly always improve sentences by rewriting them in fewer words.
5. Reframe 90% of the passive voice.
French speakers consider an elegantly managed passive voice to be the height of refinement. But here in the good old U.S. (or Australia, Great Britain, etc.), we value action. We do things is inherently more interesting than Things are done by us. Passive voicemuddies your writing; when the actor is hidden, the action makes less sense.
Bonus: Use spell-check
There’s no excuse for teh in anything more formal than a Twitter tweet.
Also, “a lot” and “all right” are always spelled as two words. You can trust me, I’m an editor.
Easy reading is damned hard writing.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.
#as weird as this might sound#that’s one of the reasons I started this blog#it was a step way out of my comfort zone#intentionally making something that other people might perceive#am I still anxious about releasing stuff?#oh absolutely but that’s just my typical anxiety disorder stuff#being perceived as the fat awkward nerdy music kid really fucked me up in middle and high school#so I’m doing my best to work on that
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The older you get the funnier anon hate gets. Like I do not have time for this I have to figure out what a 1099-K form is.
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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday
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Top Drawer
A/N: this is just a scene lacking a story.
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The apartment was oddly quiet after she inserted her key and stepped inside the front door, toeing her boots off on the welcome mat. She knew he would be home; he had told her as much before she left work, knowing she’d be coming straight for him. She called his name, and heard a faint response. His voice was coming from his bedroom.
She moved to the living room and dropped her bag onto the couch, pulled the tie out of her hair to let it drop to her shoulders and slipped the tie onto her wrist. She smiled when she saw one of his t-shirts, along with a pair of soft sweatpants, waiting for her on the back of the couch. He knew she always liked to be comfortable after a day at work, and there was nothing more comfortable than his clothes, worn warm and soft to the touch.
She changed and tossed her work clothes into the washing machine on her way to the bedroom, noticing the closer she got the stronger the smell of fresh paint. Confused, she pushed the bedroom door open, only to see him standing excitedly in front of his chest of drawers, a small bucket of paint over in the corner of the room, brush sticking out the top.
“Hey…” she said slowly, drawing it out, still puzzled. “What’s going on in here? Did you put a hole in the wall or something?”
He rolled his eyes, but still looked no less excited as he shook his head at her.
“No. If I’d done that, there would be plaster and spackling, not pink paint.”
Her eyebrows lifted curiously.
“Pink paint? What for?”
Wearing a wide grin, he stepped away from the chest of drawers, and her gaze was drawn to it instead of him for the first time since entering the bedroom. Her eyes widened when they landed on the newly painted pink top drawer, pulled open a little to make sure none of the paint sealed it closed. She stepped closer until she could peek inside it; the top drawer was empty. Well, empty except for a pair of her socks, laundered and folded neatly, the way she did it.
She looked up at him with wide eyes.
“I get a drawer?” she asked, heart thumping.
He nodded.
“You get the top drawer” he repeated, emphasising.
She stumbled over the words, trying to get them out.
“Why?”
Finally, a word that made sense.
“Because I love you.”
She flew to him and he caught her out of the air, laughing and staggering back a step as her weight hit his body.
“You’re welcome” he chuckled in her ear.
She pulled her head away from his shoulder and kissed him, bracketing his head with her palms.
“I love you, too” she said softly.
Tagging: @writingmysanity @elizabeth-karenina
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Beginner's luck
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#writerblue275 thoughts#this is me rn#frfr#I need to be wrapped up in a blanket like a burrito and cuddled and told everything will be ok#work is putting me through the FUCKING WRINGER at the moment#I’m so tired and stressed 😭😭😭#im taking Monday off because god I need a long weekend
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Ideas of fatal character flaws? :3
Hi :)
Fatal character flaws
Aristotle calls this ‘Hamartia’ - a tragic flaw or error. It can be anything happening to good or bad characters, even otherwise good character traits and with good intentions that ultimately lead to the character’s demise. They are often traits that don’t neccessarily lead to someone’s downfall, but can if they’re done to an extreme. So think of these otherwise normal ‘flaws’ as extremes.
ignorance - not seeking helpful knowledge
selfishness - not thinking about others
curiosity - getting involved in things they shouldn’t get involved in
impetuousness - being too passionate/ not thinking before acting
pride - not giving in/ not taking help from others
hubris - exaggerated opinion of oneself/ thinking nothing can get to them
lack of self-control - can’t help/stop themself
indecisiveness* - not being able to make decisions
confirmation bias - only taking in information that supports one’s own belief
arrogance - thinking they are superior
Have fun!
- Jana
*Interesting example: Chidi from The Good Place. A morally great character who is so extreme in always trying to make the right choice and therefore not being able to make a decision until it is proven to be right, it basically lands him in hell.
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#lmaooo so many of these are excellent#the aphelios and Yone one#the Kayn and Akali one has me CACKLING#And the Ezreal and Camille one is so accurate it’s amazing
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I am a WHORE for “the love is requited, they’re both just idiots”
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idk smth about kayn pls perceive my lover boy
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to you, it’s a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it’s a fire line that’ll haunt them for the next 17 years.
you don’t know how impactful your writing is because it’s been in your brain for far too long now. you’ve stared at it for hours and repeated “this sucks” over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.
but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone’s gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go “jesus fucking christ” and put the book down to have an existential crisis.
#writerblue275 thoughts#I’ve always been a perfectionist#and especially as a perfectionist with currently unmedicated ADHD sometimes my writing process isn’t something I love#and I feel bad about it#so sometimes it’s really good to see this and remind myself of this#I’ve been trying to take more of a#FUCK IT WE BALL sort of approach#(while still editing and going over my work of course)#but sometimes I just get so into my own head#so I force myself to just send it. to just press post.
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