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posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 7, 2016 at 5:38 AM
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Pat
I pretty well agree with Ciel's points...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 6, 2016 at 8:53 PM
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PatB
I got loads of experience editing my own book Love and Sobriety but I must have done alright because the publisher stole my Copyright and Amazon's legal department is checking into it.
posted by
WileyJohn
on July 6, 2016 at 2:24 PM
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From what I have read and recently Kindle books , I think too much description of situations sometimes tries to impose on the reader a study of the brickwork rather than the building. A view of the authors own wishes rather than that of the recipient.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 6, 2016 at 11:25 AM
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I've been going over nothing at all if it is on the computer. The scrolling and other movements make me nauseous. Hopefully I'll get over it. Reading a book doesn't seem to do that most of the time so I'm having fun reading John Grisham's "Sycamore Row". Quite a tale.
posted by
TAPS.
on July 6, 2016 at 11:21 AM
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When I wrote Tom Ugly, I tried really hard to define who the characters were where they fir and why what happened to them did. What I minimilized...and have been criticized for by my English mate, was the description around the story. If I didn't feel it was absolutely necessary I left it out. it was a tough little story, didn't need description of wild flowers and how blue the sky was after the storm. The fact of the storm was what I thought was important.
posted by
Kabu
on July 6, 2016 at 8:22 AM
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The POV question is, I think, not as difficult as this. You seem to be wrangling with leaving the reader wondering things, but it is exactly that wondering and wanting to know, that keeps the reader turning those pages! Journalism, which must present cogent and concise answers to all those Ws and the H, is not the magic-carpet writing of fiction, where mystery is the essence of interest and engagement.
posted by
Ciel
on July 6, 2016 at 7:30 AM
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