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Jun24	Revise Mercilessly Jason Boog June 24, 2008 Know More: Editing Andrew Davidson, revision, The Gargoyle Are you afraid to revise mercilessly? These are tough words for any writer to hear: "The agent was intrigued, but to his disappointment, he found the 195,000 word manuscript bloated and self-indulgent."If you've heard something similar about your book, you... Posted at 6:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May13	How To Re-Imagine Your Fictional World Jason Boog May 13, 2008 Does your prose feel boring? Does your fictional world feel shallow? Read some Stanislaw Lem, the Polish master of space stories. You can meet him in this short film that I found on SFSignal. The movie gives you a groovy... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jan25	How To Revise Your Novel Even Though Web Writing Is Ruining Your Editing Skills Jason Boog January 25, 2008 Where have all the postings gone?I've been a little light on the blogging here lately, but I've got a good excuse--I'm editing the crap out of my novel. Finishing this draft, I realized that I've lost touch with some of... Continue Reading Posted at 7:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 3	How To Be Merciless Jason Boog October 3, 2007 For the last year I've been staring at my manuscript, scribbling, adjusting, adding, subtracting, dividing and editing. I'm learning to be merciless. Today, the lovable Pinky's PaperHaus blog has a report from a lecture by novelist George Saunders about the... Continue Reading Posted at 6:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Nov 2	Editor's Picks: Inside a Fiction Editor's Bookshelf Jason Boog November 2, 2006 What do fiction editors like to read? Most fledgling writers would give an arm or a leg to know that before mailing their manuscript. Today, we find out what Sam Douglas--an associate editor at Picador--likes to read. His firm has... Continue Reading Posted at 8:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Nov 1	This Wacky World of Writers: How To Become an Editor Jason Boog November 1, 2006 In this wacky world of writers, very few people end up exactly where they imagined they would end up in the beginning. I grew up thinking I'd be a private detective novelist and I ended up doing investigative reporting for... Continue Reading Posted at 8:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
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