*Jonna hits delete on both submissions*.....seriously, as a place where young (not chronologically young, but new-to-the-profession) authors can submit, we love finding talented storytellers. But the most frustrating thing is while they may have the TALENT for telling a good story, they have yet to learn the CRAFT of telling a good story. Are we going to just toss them? Or try to help them learn? We'd rather let our Orc go on a rant about things he sees on a regular basis--because we want them to SUCCEED. And they won't, without improving their craft.
River of "but", heh. Ever since I heard the guys talk about "river of text" on the Writer Dojo, I've been hyper-sensitive to it, which is a good thing.
Thank you for the reminder to search for easily overused words. I sincerely hope I haven't irritated anybody *too* much (my goal is to be a minor irritant).
Seems to me you could use ‘The theory and practice of editing New Yorker articles’ by Walcott Gibbs, which was reprinted in Thurber’s THE YEARS WITH ROSS.
Which is well worth reading for its own sake, btw.
Back when blogs were a thing, they had this cool app(?) called "Word Cloud' or something like that, that showed you how often you used words in your manuscript.
Or have y'all found better tools to do the same thing?
*Jonna hits delete on both submissions*.....seriously, as a place where young (not chronologically young, but new-to-the-profession) authors can submit, we love finding talented storytellers. But the most frustrating thing is while they may have the TALENT for telling a good story, they have yet to learn the CRAFT of telling a good story. Are we going to just toss them? Or try to help them learn? We'd rather let our Orc go on a rant about things he sees on a regular basis--because we want them to SUCCEED. And they won't, without improving their craft.
Grammer & Speling be importunt
River of "but", heh. Ever since I heard the guys talk about "river of text" on the Writer Dojo, I've been hyper-sensitive to it, which is a good thing.
I live in hope that I can master the fine art of not irritating the copyeditor before I become a sharkû.
Thank you for the reminder to search for easily overused words. I sincerely hope I haven't irritated anybody *too* much (my goal is to be a minor irritant).
Seems to me you could use ‘The theory and practice of editing New Yorker articles’ by Walcott Gibbs, which was reprinted in Thurber’s THE YEARS WITH ROSS.
Which is well worth reading for its own sake, btw.
Back when blogs were a thing, they had this cool app(?) called "Word Cloud' or something like that, that showed you how often you used words in your manuscript.
Or have y'all found better tools to do the same thing?