I did a year long Certificate in Editing Program. It was three courses where we went from proofreading to developmental editing and publishing biggrin and all the things in between. Super interesting, but hard to get a job in as I'm finding.
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:18 am
DawnLuna
I know it is not avatar related but I see there are a few writers here! If you want to talk about your writing or nanowrimo experiences, chat here!
I am a trained editor, believe it or not, so this interests me haha
What kind of editing did you want to focus on? Fiction, news, technical writing?
I know it is not avatar related but I see there are a few writers here! If you want to talk about your writing or nanowrimo experiences, chat here!
I am a trained editor, believe it or not, so this interests me haha
What kind of editing did you want to focus on? Fiction, news, technical writing?
That's a bit of a complicated answer. Since I do want a job, the broad answer is anything.
But more personally I'd like to edit game guides or even manuals. If I do edit fiction I really enjoy developmental editing. I love line editing too. The worst would be proofreading since at that point I can't make any substantial comments. I did some academic editing before but that route you can get into a lot of issues.
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:20 pm
DawnLuna
ZeeZeeMonster
DawnLuna
I know it is not avatar related but I see there are a few writers here! If you want to talk about your writing or nanowrimo experiences, chat here!
I am a trained editor, believe it or not, so this interests me haha
What kind of editing did you want to focus on? Fiction, news, technical writing?
That's a bit of a complicated answer. Since I do want a job, the broad answer is anything.
But more personally I'd like to edit game guides or even manuals. If I do edit fiction I really enjoy developmental editing. I love line editing too. The worst would be proofreading since at that point I can't make any substantial comments. I did some academic editing before but that route you can get into a lot of issues.
So, you more like editing to make sure the content is clear/understandable?
I know it is not avatar related but I see there are a few writers here! If you want to talk about your writing or nanowrimo experiences, chat here!
I am a trained editor, believe it or not, so this interests me haha
What kind of editing did you want to focus on? Fiction, news, technical writing?
That's a bit of a complicated answer. Since I do want a job, the broad answer is anything.
But more personally I'd like to edit game guides or even manuals. If I do edit fiction I really enjoy developmental editing. I love line editing too. The worst would be proofreading since at that point I can't make any substantial comments. I did some academic editing before but that route you can get into a lot of issues.
So, you more like editing to make sure the content is clear/understandable?
Yes, with nonfiction or technical that would be the goal. With fiction it would be to make sure the plot is consistent, realistic for its given world, etc. But all editing is pretty much to make sure the writing is conveying what it means to convey, so yes!
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:59 am
I didn't even know there were different subtypes of editing, but developmental editing sounds like it would be very widely usable and definitely something I'd go for if I had ambitions of going further than writing as a hobby. It really is a pain to keep all the details straight and maintain the bigger picture when working on a story for months to years on end.
I didn't even know there were different subtypes of editing, but developmental editing sounds like it would be very widely usable and definitely something I'd go for if I had ambitions of going further than writing as a hobby. It really is a pain to keep all the details straight and maintain the bigger picture when working on a story for months to years on end.
Yah! I didn't really know until I started seriously studying it. Subtypes and / or levels even. Yes, I love developmental editing, being able to contribute suggestions to overall ideas. Exactly! It helps keep the bigger picture in mind and clear up things. (We even create things called style sheets the keep track of all the names, places, unusual words, and even plot points of the story.) I agree, its also so much harder to edit your own writing when you spend so much time with it. whee
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 4:51 am
DawnLuna
Yah! I didn't really know until I started seriously studying it. Subtypes and / or levels even. Yes, I love developmental editing, being able to contribute suggestions to overall ideas. Exactly! It helps keep the bigger picture in mind and clear up things. (We even create things called style sheets the keep track of all the names, places, unusual words, and even plot points of the story.) I agree, its also so much harder to edit your own writing when you spend so much time with it. whee
That sounds really thorough! I'd never thought about making a sheet to list places and in-world terminology to ensure that they're consistent, but that's a great idea.
Yah! I didn't really know until I started seriously studying it. Subtypes and / or levels even. Yes, I love developmental editing, being able to contribute suggestions to overall ideas. Exactly! It helps keep the bigger picture in mind and clear up things. (We even create things called style sheets the keep track of all the names, places, unusual words, and even plot points of the story.) I agree, its also so much harder to edit your own writing when you spend so much time with it. whee
That sounds really thorough! I'd never thought about making a sheet to list places and in-world terminology to ensure that they're consistent, but that's a great idea.
Style sheets are the bomb! It is suuuper helpful, the bigger the project the more helpful.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:16 am
Hey writers! Any tips for chunking a story into arcs that feel satisfying, rather than everything blending together in one big soup?
Hey writers! Any tips for chunking a story into arcs that feel satisfying, rather than everything blending together in one big soup?
Id be interested to hear this too! Maybe quote zeezee about it?
Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 6:25 am
The Jungle (Inspired by a conversation between myself and one Cecily ´SLWS´ Webster)
As the world became light, I looked around me in shock and surprise. I had lain down to sleep, very comfortably I might add, and now awoke to a jungle around me. As I stared ahead, I could only see the underbrush crawling its way to my feet, as if it wished to swallow me whole. I stood and turned about, trying to find the path I had been on. It had only seemed a short time ago that the light had left, yet in that time my little area had become overgrown. Everywhere I turned, I could see now way out. As I searched, I began to realize that not only was my path missing, but so were some of my things; including one very special message from a very special friend, one who was dear to my heart. I fell to my hands and knees, searching the ground for what I had lost. Soon, I began to pull things up, and weed them out. As I weeded, I began to become interested in the items I found. Some of these items led me away from the patch I had started on. I often found myself lost, and struggling to find where I had originally been. Other items I tossed away with barely a glance – it was naught but a weed, what had I to do with it? The day wore on with no sign of my special message. I began to have trouble keeping my mind on the goal, so many new and interesting things popping up around me to grab my attention. I would think I had finally almost found it, then a new thing would spring up beside me, and I would often nearly forget it altogether. As the light began to fade, I found my interest drawn to another new item. It was small, and looked quite lovely, so I went to it, and picked it up. As I studied it, I realized I had not found what I was originally looking for, and turned around to search some more: however, I was stopped by a bright flash, then blackness as the light disappeared.
I stared at the blank screen before me, listened to the beeping of the hard drive, and realized that the last attachment I opened had been a virus. My computer had crashed.
Hey writers! Any tips for chunking a story into arcs that feel satisfying, rather than everything blending together in one big soup?
It can be difficult to do so. One way some writers do it is to segment each arc out into a set of chapters. Say, Chapters 1-2, the protagonist begins his (or her) foray into the unknown. Chapter 3, the antagonist is introduced, or possibly a side character that has some importance to the main story, but isn't part of the main plot. So-on and so forth, no more than 2-3 chapters per "arc" or the reader may forget who the protagonist is, and always throw a main arc chapter or 3 in here and there, don't wait too long to go back to them. I like the:
1-2: protagonist(s) introduction 3: antagonist/side character blurb 4-6: protagonist or 4: antagonist/side character blurb & 5-6: protagonist again.
Mix it up here and there, and of course have chapters of interactions between all characters here and there. I actually like having a good backstory for antagonists, let the reader know how/why the character became such a bad guy.
Another way is to have a second "book" that is a collection of "stories". Each story is a peek into the life of one or more of the characters, the world setting you have created, etc.
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