Dec 23
Annals of Revision
Posted: under Craft, Editing, Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: craft of writing, revision, the writing life December 23rd, 2010
Herewith a post that may grow over the days, for your amusement, as I jot down some details of revising a big book at top speed (also lets me take a short break each time.)
1. How could I have gone over this chapter several times (which I have) and not seen that “he’d had a good” was not a complete clause in that sentence? A good what?? Adjectives need nouns. (Nouns often don’t need adjectives, if you use the right noun.)