The Creative Penn

JULY 31, 2023

And I was reading through these, and at the time I was a nonfiction proofreader and copy editor, sorting out other people's work, and I was reading these stories just going like these are—like I didn't understand the medium of short stories very well, and obviously, if you're going to start anywhere, start with Stephen King.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JULY 15, 2022

But somewhere in the last century, the shouty little mark fell out of fashion in literary prose. Editors today frown on excessive exclaiming even in mainstream fiction, outside of books for young children and comic books. In social media and texting, exclamations are powerful in the way they project tone of voice in a sparse context.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 20, 2021

In part, I tackled the project to prove what I’d always suspected: that the rules of storytelling are universal, that they apply across genres, including both nonfiction  and  fiction. I’m also convinced that it produces unoriginal prose that’s much stiffer and more cramped. That indeed proved to be the case.  A.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That can be good, in one way, because you do have time to really reflect and dig deep, and write better prose, months and months of structural edits, like three or four versions of it. And you do a lot of projects simultaneously, too, but I know that you do a lot of time blocking. You gotta hit those milestones. We'll see.

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