{"quotes":[{"text":"Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.","author":"Jay Duplass","tags":["together","acting","editing "],"id":4564,"author_id":"Jay+Duplass"},{"text":"I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?","author":"Bridie Clark","tags":["careers","dreams","editing","fitzgerald","hemingway","wolfe"],"id":9460,"author_id":"Bridie+Clark"},{"text":"Style and voice are different. Style is standard conventions of writing; voice is the distinct way an individual puts words together. All good writers have a near-uniform understanding of style, but a voice all their own.","author":"Naveed Saleh","tags":["article-writing","articles","editing","journalism","style-guides","writing-style","writing-tips"],"id":30503,"author_id":"Naveed+Saleh"},{"text":"Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["editing","funny","grammar","grammer","language","stammer"],"id":33331,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.","author":"Joe Dante","tags":["broken","editing","where "],"id":35574,"author_id":"Joe+Dante"},{"text":"If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...","author":"Kira Hawke","tags":["editing","reading","writing"],"id":48837,"author_id":"Kira+Hawke"},{"text":"The internet is killing the art of writing. The big 'publish' button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","criticism","edit","editing","editing","edition","how-to-edit","how-to-publish","how-to-publish-a-book","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","internet","internet-publishing","internet-publishing","internet","online-publishing","online-publishing","paper","positive-criticism","praise","publish","publish-button","self-publishing","self-publishing","self-publishing-tips","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-skill","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":49950,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The internet is killing the art of writing. The big 'publish' button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","criticism","edit","editing","editing","edition","how-to-edit","how-to-publish","how-to-publish-a-book","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","internet","internet-publishing","internet-publishing","internet","online-publishing","online-publishing","paper","positive-criticism","praise","publish","publish-button","self-publishing","self-publishing","self-publishing-tips","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-skill","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":49950,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress...Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole winnowing process I just don't get. Why does it always stop when the work in question has been reduced to sixty or seventy thousand words--entirely coincidentally, I'm sure, the minimum length for a publishable novel? I'm sure you could get it down to twenty or thirty if you tried hard enough. In fact, why stop at twenty or thirty? Why write at all? Why not just jot the plot and a couple of themes down on the back of an envelope and leave it at that? The truth is, there's nothing very utilitarian about fiction or its creation, and I suspect that people are desperate to make it sound manly, back-breaking labor because it's such a wussy thing to do in the first place. The obsession with austerity is an attempt to compensate, to make writing resemble a real job, like farming, or logging. (It's also why people who work in advertising put in twenty-hour days.) Go on, young writers--treat yourself to a joke, or an adverb! Spoil yourself! Readers won't mind!","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["editing","humor","work","writing"],"id":58053,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, ‘Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?’. Monet would be ripping his hair out.","author":"E.A. 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