Top Content Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

This will help polish up your prose and allow your work to shine. Editors have extensive tools and training that, when properly wielded, will make your prose sing. If a line editor thinks it can be strengthened by tightening it up or using fewer words, then it will likely be cleaned up to make it more concise.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In the third example, the clipped prose style begs for “Harder than the bullet,” which happens to be grammatically correct. It’s not that a gangster can’t use standard English; the problem is the inconsistency between the slangy “Yeah, shut up” and the use of “fewer” where “less” would be more natural.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 20, 2021

I’m also convinced that it produces unoriginal prose that’s much stiffer and more cramped. For years I edited every line to perfection before moving on, and when I finished a piece it was completely finished. But I’m convinced that stopping to edit as you go makes writing much more painful and takes much longer.  A.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 1, 2022

The grain of truth: “Said” followed by a pronoun (“said she”) is more at home in poetry or highly lyrical prose. Why it’s not true: “Because it’s demonstrably silly,” said the copyeditor. And inconvenient,” added the intern. Maybe the myth arose from an unwarranted extrapolation from those contexts.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. I hire a copy editor to clean up my posts, and while the ideas, connections, turns of phrase, overall structure and layout are mine, it still feels inauthentic. Write with a copy editor. So here’s my response. Persistence pays.

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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 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. (Samuel Richardson,  Pamela , 43). Exclamation points still serve in all those ways.

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