Writing & Editing

Once upon a time there was a woman who started a website in her basement. It wasn't a dank, dusty, musty basement like you might imagine. Her room in the basement was painted green. It had windows that let in some light but not too much light and the ceiling was very low and...
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I've been thinking a lot about writing—about how much I want to be doing it, what I might do it about, whether someone somewhere might pay me to do it. Since the theme of this year is "It's no longer the time of sitting around and thinking about doing something," well, welcome to Thursdays...
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Yesterday on Twitter, designer Vashti Braha started listing crocheters who use the service. She did so in response to Amie Hirtes' tweet wondering where all the crocheters are. Ah, yes. Where on earth are the crocheters? I replied: Since the earliest days of CrochetMe.com, I've wondered where the crochet blogs are. I don't mean to...
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365.46 (Editing), originally uploaded by kpwerker. Greetings from Colorado. The altitude here near the mile-high city always makes me feel a little wonky. I battle a minor headache for the first few days I'm in town, and I get a bloody nose from the dryness. Running up the stairs in the office leaves me winded. The...
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And by "style" I mean language style, not fashion. Specifically, there are two aspects of style I'd like to discuss. The first is technical style. Actually, no. I don't want to discuss this now. But I'll sum up so you have an idea of what I mean, and then I'll shelve it until I want...
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If you're here because you heard my interview with Mary Beth on Getting Loopy, welcome! (If you aren't here because of that, go have a listen. If you were listening live but didn't hear the end because we went about eight minutes over, you can hear those last eight minutes from that link, too.) A...
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I'm in a bit of a cobwebby state, so I thought I'd take a break from trying unsuccessfully to get good work done to answer some questions that came up in response to my first post on editing. Then I'll feel all articulate and like I got something done, and will therefore certainly return...
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Although I've written professionally for a few years, it's editing that is my true love. It's impossible for me to figure how much my experiences writing books, blogs and magazine articles have influenced my editing work, or how my fairly natural inclination to edit has affected my writing. There aren't too many editors in...
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