ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. Once my new teacher noticed that I couldn’t take verbal instruction, spell, or abstractly conjugate, I was sent back down to the special education class, so I could graduate again, be promoted again, and be rejected, again. Write with a copy editor.

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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 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. We're all very much promoted the same way. But the graphics tend to look very similar. It's highly recognizable. You gotta hit those milestones.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s different from emerging to resent the copyeditor; appreciating the prose is part of reading for pleasure.   Whole books  have been written as a single sentence, for crying out loud, although I’m not promoting that idea. McBride is far from the first novelist to use long sentences effectively.

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