Tag: editing
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My Book is Much Better. Would Endless Delay Improve It More?
I recently put the brakes on the novel I had “finished” because I realized suddenly that I don’t know what the word “finished” means. I thought it was the novel I wanted to write, but it wasn’t. It was incredibly flawed. I was introducing an author’s voice that I didn’t want to introduce and some…
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Slicing and Dicing the Script
The musical I’m directing is three weeks away from opening. Today we had our first mega-rehearsal – 8 hours which included two complete run-throughs from start to finish. I know now that I had been over-optimistic about the musical’s length. I was confident that we could get it done in 2.5 hours which would have…
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George Orwell on Writing
“If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy.” – George Orwell, 1946 I recently came across this gem of an essay by George Orwell. It’s on writing and political discourse. You can Read the essay HERE! Granted, this essay is specifically speaking of political language and he points out that…