tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023462592097587064.post6870597448223594534..comments2023-04-27T11:22:02.142-04:00Comments on Jordan's Croft: A Word, By Any Other NameUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023462592097587064.post-18908122495662763862011-06-15T09:46:02.401-04:002011-06-15T09:46:02.401-04:00Webbie Girl you illustrate so succinctly the diffe...Webbie Girl you illustrate so succinctly the different phases a book must go through. I shall use this as a reference for those people who ask me how writng is actually done - a surprising number do this. <br />You also show how important proof reading and copy editing are to writers and that even professionals can miss things when doing this. I noted two typos (in the proof reading section) and can't guarantee there wasn't a third.<br />This article is a valuable contribution to the writer's art so thatks for writing it and thanks to Kitty for hosting it.Ian mathienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023462592097587064.post-29223944989825115052011-06-14T10:11:43.122-04:002011-06-14T10:11:43.122-04:00Great information. Thanks for sharing!Great information. Thanks for sharing!Jean Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02047709505502621618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023462592097587064.post-50241093473592437642011-06-13T11:08:12.665-04:002011-06-13T11:08:12.665-04:00Good to see you.
Webbie Grrl and I are going to ...Good to see you. <br /><br />Webbie Grrl and I are going to talk about this topic for awhile. <br /><br />Chime in any time.<br /><br />I'm curious to see what terms others use while editing.<br /><br />This is what Dean Wesley Smith posted to his "Killing the Sacred Cows" blogs.<br /><br />http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=4398<br /><br /><i>So, to make sure we are all speaking the same language, let me define a few terms that Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I (Dean Wesley Smith) have used for a long time now, and I will try to use in this discussion.<br /><br />REDRAFT: That’s when you take the typing you have done and toss it away, then write the story again from your memory of the idea. When you are redrafting, you are working from the creative side of your brain.<br /><br />REWRITE: That’s when you go into a manuscript after it is finished in critical voice and start changing things, usually major things like plot points, character actions, style of sentences, and so on. When you rewrite like this, you are working from the critical side of your mind.<br /><br />TOUCH-UP DRAFT: When you run through a manuscript fixing small things, things you wrote in notes while writing, things your trusted first reader found. Often very small things or typos. This draft takes almost no time, often less than a day for a full novel, sometimes only a few hours.<br /><br />SPELL-CHECKING DRAFT: Since so many of us work with our grammar-checkers and spell-checkers off, we need a spell-check draft, often done before the manuscript is given to a first reader. This often takes a an hour or so for a full novel.<br /><br />Now, let me say right up front here that I (DWS) am a three-draft writer. Most long-term pros are “three draft” writers that I have talked to in private. Not all, since we all work differently, but a vast majority of the ones I have talked to use a process very near mine.<br /><br />My process:<br /><br />First draft I do as quickly as I can, staying solidly as much as possible in my creative side, adding in things I think about as I go along, until I get to the end of the draft. Again, I try to write as fast as the project will allow since I have discovered a long time ago that if I just keep typing, the less chance I have to get in my own way and screw things up.<br /><br />Second draft I spellcheck and then give to my trusted first reader.<br /><br />Third draft I touch up all the things my first reader has found and then I mail the novel or story.<br /><br />If my first reader hates the story, I toss the draft away and redraft completely.<br /><br />That’s my (DWS) process. I am a three-draft writer. (Unless I need to redraft, then I (DWS) am a six-draft writer.)</i>K. A. Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07020119815910396933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023462592097587064.post-52824992647045758172011-06-13T08:47:16.406-04:002011-06-13T08:47:16.406-04:00Thanks, good info!Thanks, good info!Ilyria Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14388592791609728607noreply@blogger.com