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| Reading & Books |
What serious readers do differently — and why it makes them better writers
Hand a manuscript back to a writer with a single note in the margin — "you've been reading a good deal of Cormac McCarthy lately, haven't you?
Graeme Brown
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Jun 24 |
| Communication |
Giving feedback on someone's writing without damaging the relationship
A writer hands me a draft and says, "Be honest, tear it apart." They almost never mean it.
Brendan Brown
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Jun 23 |
| Writing & Editing |
Why your first draft is supposed to be bad (and what that means for how you write)
A writer hands us a manuscript and apologises before we have read a word. The opening chapter is rough, she says, she knows it, she nearly rewrote it four times before sending it.
Global English Editing Editorial Team
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Jun 21 |
| Reading & Books |
Why re-reading a book is not a waste of time
A certain kind of paperback gives a person away: the spine cracked in three places, the cover soft at the corners, a coffee ring on page forty.
Global English Editing Editorial Team
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Jun 19 |
| Language & Intelligence |
What your vocabulary reveals about your habits of attention
A manuscript crosses the desk in which a character "got hurt." Not was hit by a car, not fell, not was beaten—just got hurt, the agent dissolved out of the sentence entirely.
Global English Editing Editorial Team
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Jun 19 |
| Language & Intelligence |
The words people choose under pressure — and what they signal to others
Read enough apology emails and you start to notice the tell. The sentences get shorter.
Global English Editing Editorial Team
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Jun 18 |
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