Failing again. Failing better.
I received an e-mail today from the folks at the Writers of the Future contest.* I submitted a story as part of the third quarter of 2012. And of the thousand or so quarterly entries, I received an Honorable Mention. Now, that doesn’t mean I get any money or publication offers. But it does mean…
Jon Gingerich of LitReactor.com has a great post on editing your story. But his advice is also useful for nonfiction writers as well. I used to edit a journal at law school, and I followed an editing pattern similar to the one suggested by Gingerich. You see, when you edit, you shouldn’t be looking only…
Some of the most frequent advice given to writers is to edit their writing strictly and severely, removing any extraneous text. In his book ON WRITING, Stephen King recalls a newspaper editor telling him that so long as he took out all the bad parts, King would “never have to work for a living.” Elmore…