Regardless of what you are writing—fiction, nonfiction, articles, op-eds, even letters to the editor—there are five basic steps to editing any manuscript. These are by no means exhaustive but will take care of some of the major problems...
General Topics, Politics, Writing
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Get to the Point
Watching debates on television is often funny-- largely because I spent years being a spokesperson so I know what goes on behind the scenes and what's happening on the set. All the "crosstalk" in the world isn't going to make a person's point any...
Writing
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Creative Writing Revisited
I took a creative writing course as part of the master's degree program I started a few years ago. (In the interest of full disclosure, I did not finish my master's degree because of the expense).
The class wasn't a bad class. I just thought I...