{"id":658,"date":"2011-11-09T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatelusiveline.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/09\/being-edited"},"modified":"2011-11-09T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T21:47:00","slug":"being-edited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulkirkdesign.co.uk\/devblock\/ttaylor111\/being-edited\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Edited"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am currently working through the line edit of my Science Fiction thriller Haunters<\/i><\/a> (blogged about before as \u2018The Ghost Effect\u2019 and due to be published by the Chicken House<\/a> next May). For those who don\u2019t know what a line edit is, it\u2019s the part of the editorial process that involves the most red ink, the part where the text is scrutinised line by line in search of errors, inconsistencies and crapness. My editor has cut 6,000 words. That\u2019s a lot of crapness. Here is some of it:<\/p>\n

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  1. Purple prose. Of the \u2018behold my literary sensibilities\u2019 variety. I don\u2019t know whether to be grateful or embarrassed about this, so I shall be both.<\/li>\n
  2. Repetition. Saying it clearly the first time means not having to say it loosely again and again. <\/li>\n
  3. Waffle. My book isn\u2019t set in Belgium. And even if it was, characters should never be allowed to sit about in comfy chairs, explaining the plot to each other. At least not in front of the reader.<\/li>\n
  4. Un-warranted non-verbal communication and other narrative ticks. Such as staring, gasping, sighing, eye-rolling and arse-scratching. Actually, no-one ever scratched their arse in my book, but if they had, they wouldn\u2019t be doing it now.<\/li>\n
  5. Seeming. When things patently are<\/i>.   <\/li>\n
  6. Many instance of the word that<\/i>. On the whole I think that<\/s> this is a good thing.<\/li>\n
  7. A policeman. Yes, a whole policeman. He was a rubbish policeman anyway. I like to think that<\/s> he\u2019s now in the next street, scratching his arse.<\/li>\n
  8. Repetition. Oh\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    I\u2019m told some writers actually go ahead and publish their own e-books without any input from an editor. Don\u2019t do that.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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