- ProwritingAid Premium Users - Discussion Experiences
Also some of the quotes on their site are more than a little misleading - like Joanna Penn "I've just published my 35th book using PWA" - I know for a fact that Jo uses a human editor and a proof reader, so if she's using PWA its as part of the early self editing process before the work goes to her editor, not as the replacement editor PWA
- Writing Software and Hardware | Page 6 | Creative Writing Forums . . .
Writing Software and Hardware For discussion of writing software and hardware Note that topics should pertain to writing, this is not the place to discuss gaming
- Novel Should each act of a story be the same length? - Writing Forums
I never saw a quote from Hemingway, in any of his letters to his editor, Fitzgerald, other friends, and such, where he said, "Well, I was trying to get the story started on page 20,"; or, "I figured act one was too long, Charles, damn too long I had a hell of a time writing it, an awful time I just couldn't get the damn thing into act two "
- Grammar - Am I going comma crazy or what?
I had to sort of retrain myself to use it after many years of thinking it wasn't necessary I still don't love it, but it's there, and if everyone else is using it, I kind of think I should, too An editor is likely to add them all in if you sell your story to a publisher I don't see the point in making their job harder I guess I've conformed
- AI Poetry Editing - Plagiarism or Nah? | Creative Writing Forums . . .
Now, the moral dilemma Is this the same as hiring an editor to refine your manuscript? Is using the refined version plagiarism or unethical in any way? Is this the same as using an online editing software like Grammarly or Hemingway? I might be overthinking it Thoughts? Opinions?
- Techniques for Writing Intense Action Sequences
I remember the very first book i wrote- i had it edited but it never got as far as publishing it, i wrote two paragraphs of energetic flowery bullshit in one particular scene and thought it was the best thing since Hemingway my editor red lined the lot two long paragraphs of over described action became something like "Bob turned and shot
- Does editing mean assassinating creativity? | Creative Writing Forums . . .
I haven't done any journalism myself, but I imagine that the editor can only allow up to a certain amount of length or space for any one article You do relinquish some creative rights when you submit a piece to an editor, and if it seems to be at the expense of your true thoughts on a subject, you might consider an alternative publisher
- The position of said in dialogues - Creative Writing Forums
Mind you, one is an editor, so it kinda adds a touch of weight to that discussion For me, IDK, since having a wide and varied amount of talky bits that are implied by vocal range, that say said is the normal level of speech, and so thought that it would be good to use it as way to differentiate and moderate the entire 'vocal' range
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