From: wswears@gci.net   
      
   On 9/21/2014 9:23 AM, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 04:21:59 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter   
   >  wrote in   
   >> I don't understand how correcting typos and grammar can   
   >> cut word count in half.   
   >   
   > I expect that the first rewrite was the completely different   
   > version that allowed Kevin to ditch the first three   
   > versions; that could certainly reduce the length by half.   
   > Correcting typos and continuity problems and clunky text   
   > could account for a thousand words, mostly from the repair   
   > of clunky text.   
   >   
   I took about 30K of 165K words out of a story during grammar and   
   spelling.  It seems to me that in order to see grammar, I have to look   
   at the language anew.  So I see duplication and circular writing, and   
   can't really let that go.  By duplication I mean when I say the same   
   thing in different ways, rather than moving text and forgetting to   
   delete the first copy.   
      
   Everybody has their own forms of throat clearing.  Sometimes I'll write   
   what needs to happen, and then I'll go back and give it some color and   
   life, but then I've got the scene written twice, and then drive on.   
      
   Bill   
      
      
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