Eating Vegetables
Neil Gaiman had the best quote: "If writing fiction is dessert, then copy-editing is eating all your vegetables. Blogging is snacking between meals."
I am trying to be a good girl and eat my vegetables, I really am. Commas=brussel sprouts; periods=potatoes (they're pretty easy to get down); dialogue="carrots"; em dashes="turnips"; quotation marks=peppers of any colour; and italics/underlining=asparagus.
Just a little blog snack now and I'll get right back to it. Honestly.
Labels: editing, neil gaiman, writing
1 Comments:
I'm the opposite. First draft is stillkeyed hell. Like the old remedy for tapeworm, swallow fatback, catch the parasite, haul it out. Grimace and gag. Revisions and editing: love it.
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