Fellow writers, there is just one good piece of advice in this video. Go to 10:00 and listen to Tip number one which is to write a summary of each chapter and analyze it for story flow and story value.
I’m 31 and have worked in accounting all my life. It is soul crushing work if you are not passionate about accounting. Looking on how to make a career change but have no idea how. Thank you for this video.
Thanks for sharing this wealth of knowledge! I do love CMOS! I am starting a new career path as a proofreader. I am currently building my website and LinkedIn profile. Would you find it beneficial to include editors as a niche target market? Do authors ask their editors for recommendations on proofreaders? Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this wealth of knowledge! I am starting a new career path as a proofreader. I am currently building my website and LinkedIn profile. Would you find it beneficial to include editors as a niche target market? Do authors ask their editors for recommendations on proofreaders? I never thought about all of the classes that could be helpful with growing your business--even with a simple task of how to prepare a quote! Thanks!
I am a fiction writer from Bangladesh with a few published books. However I still struggle while editing my novels. This video was helpful. Many thanks.
I am a printer by profession and I have a degree with a second class upper division after getting Ordinary Diploma and Higher National Diploma. In that respect, I would like to be an editor (book editor). How can you assist me to become one of you?
Hello, I am a struggling writer here in the Cordillera region of the Northern Philippines and I have a question about over explaining or info dumping because we all know that the majority of fictions or books in general are based in the Western world like Lord of The Rings, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Count Dracula (too much examples, sorry) and we all know that they are tropes and clichés. I am attempting to write a fantasy with the stylings of mentioned tittles; Game of Thrones or Lord of the Ring but in the world of my people; The Igorot people; one of the major indigenous people of the Philippines. Many aspects of our culture, traditions, customs, mythology are not well known in a worldwide scale. How can I inform the readers about us the Igorots with accuracy in my story without overexplaining or as mentioned info dumping. Your response to this is highly appreciated.
I'm a freelance, freedom writer. I write solely to focus on the story. Which is grammar edited by a line editor. Then content edited by a clarity and flow editor including better wording. Then it's proof and beta read. Then I submit the work.
In my middle-grade book, Hide and seek, My main protagonist 10-year-old Emily dreamt that she was in court in front of a huge crowd and a judge and in that crowd, she saw some familiar faces, one that she had bullied in the past and when she said that she wasn't guilty, the enormous crow chanted 'Liar, Liar Liar and then when the judge accused her of lying and bullying the crowd chanted 'Guity, guilty guilty, then she woke up. This dream was essentially about her hidden guilt and as we all know, guilt comes out in dreams. It's a good way to show hidden inner conflict.
Here is my pitch: Have you ever wanted to rule a country? What about a country with dragons, dark mages, and war at each boarder? What about a country with vast wealth inequalities per region? Have you ever wanted to be a King of a land like this? If not, you and Gordon may have more in common than you think.
Is it difficult to get into editing when you've been a historian and blog content writer? I've never done it strictly professionally, just on my own, for several years.
Hey! When I search AEC all I get is the Australian Electroral Commission - probably because I'm Australian - does anyone know what tha acronym stands for?
Wow, just subbed. Thank you so much for this video. I am a brand new book author and your perspective is so valuable. Thank you again! The story (I finished my first draft) was a blast, like beyond what I could have expected. I agree, the editing will be the hard work. :)
What a load of sh.....t First of all you have to be J (which stands for Japanese of course), or swear allegiance to the J cause because if you write anything against the J then your book is never going to be printed, so that's one. You can write all the badmouthing against other people like arabs, muslims (ask salman), chinese, french, germans, africans, aboriginals etc, you will be published and even become a millionaire, but nothing against the J. In other words editing is legal censorship. Editors basically tell you as an author, if you want to be published, do as WE say or start your own publishing company, (which is now super easy online because nobody buys paper books anymore and those who do will not make you a millionaire, the internet will). If you have your book published in Japan however you can write all the crap you wish against the J and this will be published because Japan has no double standards based on religion and ethnicity. The only thing you can't write about in Japan is the Emperor and Imperial household in a negative way, other than that, you are free, which is MUCH more than any western nation (so called the place of freedom) will allow. That's why if you want to read a real book, read only books from authors who refuse editors, there are many of those authors and now thanks to the internet these authors are published. Of course it is called independent authors, as opposed to collabos, oops sorry i mean mainstream authors ! Ironically enough, one person who refuses to be edited is Fran Lebowitz, but then again, she is never going to be a threat to the Japanese cause. When Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa nobody when to him and said "No, blue here", when Michelangelo painted the Sistine, nobody went to him and said, " No, i don't want the finger to point at each other", when Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliette nobody told him "No we want them to stay alive or it won't sell". Authors are artists just like painter and sculptor. Either you are a free artists and write anything you want and demand it to be published or accept it not to be, or you become a colla.... , mainstream author, painter, sculptor, singer, acxtor, etc, ... in other words a puppet, but in that case don't delude yourself, you lose the right to call yourself an artist. It is up to you, but the real artists (and this is becoming an increasingly small club), will cast you out and you will be ridiculed by them. Which, if you are or call yourself a true artist, should be a fate worse than death ! Editor are to authors what galleries are to painters and sculptors. If the Gallery allows you to expose a painting made of your own excrement and will pay you for that, but refuses to hang a swastika, then .. find a better editor or no editor at all. But remember one thing. You can make a painting made of your own excrement or from the blood of new born kitten and puppies, and you will be exposed on 5th and praised and even paid, but a swastika you try to not even sell but just expose on the street, or in the woods in the middle of nowhere or a manuscript against the Js (Japanese), locked in your safe in your house if discovered will guarantee you some time in jail. That's what an editor does, it polices your work to make sure it doesn't become a tool of propaganda against Japanese.
Dreams are very important to me because they can symbolise alot of what's wrong with our waking life, as well as our hidden needs/desires. I adore writing dream sequences but I know most people hate them. As a fan of abstract art I tend to disagree with many "rules" in writing. Introducing a dream sequence might be annoying to some but for people who love to analyse symbols (like me), interpreting a dream sequence is alot of fun.
Your video is really helpful. It has made it easier for me to identify the roles that I play as an editor. Every author has a unique voice and style. This video is a must watch for both aspiring and experienced editors. Thank you.
I'm afraid I disagree. For instance, the word 'started' is not an extraneous word if used properly. For instance: 'I walked down the driveway' is simply a report of something that happened in the past. A statement. The reader hears about a moment after the fact that they did not experience alongside the protagonist, from somewhere in the past that is unspecified, which creates distance between the reader and the protagonist. Creating distance is not what any of us have in mind. 'I started to walk down the driveway' puts a thought in the reader's head tied directly to the moment the protagonist began this action. That is the power of the word 'started'. Now there is no temporal distance. The action is tied precisely to an active point on the timeline. There is kinetic motion happening 'right now'. The reader identifies temporally with that moment and it feels to them that they are shoulder to shoulder with the protagonist in that moment, almost as if it is happening to them, 'right now'. It only took seven extra letters to do that. If a reader reads at 250 words per minute, all they have invested is less than a quarter of a second in order to remove that distance and make the sentence stronger, not weaker. So it is not 'hardly worth mentioning'. On the contrary, it is absolutely worth mentioning. But the mention is about the potential power of that word, and not about how it is always an extraneous word. Because it isn't.
Step 1: Open Your Manuscript Step 2: Open RU-vid Step 3: Open Mozart's Lacrimosa: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hszFNFHSNSA.html Step 4: Let the magic happen as you edit your masterpiece.
I like using dreams as more as a kinda of peak inot their subconcussive(usual a main character), I have a lot of fiction that are they're world takes in dream rather than in reality. But the dreams rarely show up in fiction rather than a scene or two, and It sucks man, wish more author use dream rather than just boring flashbacks >:(
I wonder which type of editing is closest to beta reading? I've found so much enjoyment doing beta reading and thought about maybe pursuing a career in something similar which is why I'm watching this. I think line/content editing is the closest but to be fair, they all sound great
I'm a beginning writer. I'm writing in a genre science fiction/ religion. I'm still in the process of writing which is taking a while. But I'm not trying to rush it
For someone who is interested in changing career paths and pursuing editing would you suggesting annotating books that you are reading to help get in the mindset of looking at the structure and content of books, not just reading and absorbing the story?
