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My Approach to Editing
Read more: My Approach to EditingThere’s no one way to write a manuscript, and there’s no one way to edit one, either. Before you work with an editor, you should know how they approach their work–and how they see their contributions in the context of your project. These are just my thoughts on the major types of editing, and every […]
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AI: The Blade Itself Incites to Deeds of Hackery
Read more: AI: The Blade Itself Incites to Deeds of HackeryWe’re peppered with marketing slop aimed at convincing us that AI is the way forward, that it will inevitably surpass human capabilities, and soon. For the purposes of writing and editing, there is no evidence to support that claim. I expect that there never will be, and that the reasons for that limitation are inherent […]
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Either/Or
Read more: Either/OrI recently misspelled my mother’s name in my father’s obituary. Had my excuses–it was a rush job and I’d started it on my phone, where my clumsy thumbs got in the way–but I still missed my typo and ended up with a draft that would have told the world that I’d been born to a […]