Editing with a Jewelers Loupe
We had a fine time, chatting over our vegetarian pasta about the dangers of passive language, redundancies, cheesy modifiers and other writing mistakes – and I am so looking forward to welcoming Maryrose back to the campus this summer,when she will teach a middle grade workshop as part of the Southampton Children’s Literature Conference and Fellows program.
In the meantime, I wanted to share a blogpost of hers that I dug up in preparation for last night’s interview, one that I think is so full of good writing and editing advice, it’s like a mini-workshop in and of itself. Talk about looking at each word with a jeweler’s loupe… I loved it so much that I printed it out for myself to file for future reference. You can see it here:
Maryrose Wood’s Lesson in Revision
Enjoy!