Posts Tagged ‘booksIhavenotread’

An editor’s job is never done

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

I’m try­ing to make the best use of what lit­tle time I have avail­able to me dur­ing a nor­mal work­ing week. Today I decided that I would like to show non-Arvon folks some­thing from last week, to explain my enthu­si­asm. So I am sweep­ing my way back through God’s Cob­bler, try­ing not to re-write, but to tidy dia­logue and remove my beloved con­di­tion­als from every­where. And also try­ing to make all actions post speech from the point of view of the main nar­ra­tor. No sud­den drifts off into some­one else’s inte­rior mono­logue. (more…)