From: mdhangton@gmail.com
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:19:23 PM UTC-4, Bill Swears wrote:
> On 9/21/2014 9:23 AM, Brian M. Scott wrote:
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> > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 04:21:59 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter
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> > wrote in
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> >> I don't understand how correcting typos and grammar can
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> >> cut word count in half.
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> > I expect that the first rewrite was the completely different
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> > version that allowed Kevin to ditch the first three
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> > versions; that could certainly reduce the length by half.
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> > Correcting typos and continuity problems and clunky text
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> > could account for a thousand words, mostly from the repair
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> > of clunky text.
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> I took about 30K of 165K words out of a story during grammar and
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> spelling.
That would never happen to me...I would never be able to write much more than
a few thousand words before I go over it once for at least English
composition. I downloaded a little word processor called Write or Die that's
meant to teach you to write
real fast and never revise until the version is done. I've never used it.
I have 80% of a novel that involves time travel in the Hellenistic world.
Last week I found two sentences in Plutarch's Life of Phocion that mentioned a
"fictional" character I created, an orphaned daughter of a hetaera I brought
forward to be fostered
in the modern world, rather than leave here there to become a streetwalker on
the docks in Tarsus. Apparently the Athenian general Phocion brought her back
to Athens and subsidized her education.
I haven't looked at the problem, but I'll need to cut this character out of
about 20k words and then fill in the holes.
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