#Editing – Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

Last Minute thoughts…

May 24, 2024

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I now have a date to send off my manuscript to be edited, so all I can think about, is it ready? Have I done the best I can, or should I look at it again? I have three days to convince myself that Folly’s End is ready to be scrutinised. I’m desperately trying to…

Is Anyone Laughing? #Poetry

Mar 27, 2024

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

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One of my favourites… Anita has the floor today, as I am working on the second edit of Folly’s End, and the new newsletter… Wish me luck with the newsletter!

One Happy Editor… #Editing

Mar 11, 2024

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

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I know that most writers don’t look forward to editing; to be fair, we are writers, not editors. And, let’s face it, it can be daunting. Hard enough to write 50.000+ words in the first place and then have to edit these words, rereading them over and over again until you want to scream? I…

So far, so good… #Editing

Nov 18, 2023

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

in #challenge, #Fiction, #journal, #writing, blogging, frustration, mystery, sharing interests, Worry, Writing

I have always enjoyed immersing myself in my writing, no matter what else is happening in my world. This year, however, has been different. Somehow, I have become very old, and I don’t like it at all. This wasn’t a complete surprise. I knew it would happen eventually, but I hoped that some yoga and…

No Do Lists!

Jun 20, 2023

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

in #challenge, #journal, blogging, frustration, hope, inspiration, life as an author, sharing interests

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I had a short conversation with myself yesterday after venting my frustration in my Macro Monday post, most of which was unprintable. The gist of it was this, just do something, anything… That old saying about how to eat an elephant was swimming around in my head, and somehow, I knew what…

Exciting New Development in the Office This Week!

Mar 9, 2022

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

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My Desk ~ Editing ~ Image by Jaye Marie I have been turning the computer off early every day this week, desperately trying to knock my current WIP into shape without any distractions This work has not been a good write by any stretch of the imagination. I have literally lost the plot on more…

Jaye’s Week…

Apr 16, 2021

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

in #challenge, #journal, #writing, blogging, books, exploring, inspiration, promotion, sharing interests

This year, we are determined to put our writing house in order and try to do something new and vastly different. Advertise! We haven’t done this before, mainly because we couldn’t afford to, plus the not so small matter of not understanding the best way to do it. But I have been reading up on…

Editing ‘Lazy Days’…

Sep 9, 2017

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

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My learning curve has taken a bit of a battering lately. I have always been painfully aware that I have a lot to learn, and that my non-fiction writing could be missing that special element that would lift it from good to being brilliant. It was to this end that I posted a request for…

Editing Progress (part two)

Oct 21, 2016

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

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This week I seriously thought the editing of The Broken Life was going well. I was systematically running each chapter through the Hemingway app, the brilliant editing tool that makes editing almost a delight to do. This system highlights all the unnecessary words, adverbs, passive voice and hard to read sentences, so you can work…

Serious Editing, my style… part one

Oct 13, 2016

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Jaye Marie & Anita Dawes

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Most writers are not particularly keen on editing their work, and this is the wrong way to start. It took me a long time to learn to love editing, but when you do, it makes the process fun (and effective!) Understandable really, for by the time you have spent several weeks’ months ripping plots…

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