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Carla DeSantis

Reading on a Deadline

mai 26, 2020 by Carla DeSantis | 19 commentaires sur Reading on a Deadline

I still yearn for my Summer of Reading. It was the summer after grade 8 — that awkward age when you are too young for a job, too old for some camps — and I had the now-longed-for luxury of time. I consumed a large number of books — some classics, some popular YA choices. […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Working With Authors

novembre 6, 2018 by Rosemary Shipton | 8 commentaires sur Working With Authors

Editors make decisions all the time as they edit, but the most important judgment call of all is how to work best with each individual author. No one-size-fits-all solution will do. Most commonly, editors make their corrections with track changes, write questions and comments for the author in the margins, and describe their overall approach […]

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Standards Communication Task Force

Standards at Work: Fiction Editing

octobre 2, 2018 by Elizabeth d'Anjou, Standards Communication Task Force | 3 commentaires sur Standards at Work: Fiction Editing

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) describe the responsibilities of an editor. The scope of PES is broad; this series explores how the standards apply to a variety of editing contexts. Karen Conlin is a freelance editor specializing in speculative fiction and young adult fiction (YA). She does structural, stylistic and copy editing, mostly for […]

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Melva McLean

What’s in a Name?

octobre 18, 2016 by Melva McLean | 2 commentaires sur What’s in a Name?

Last month’s book club choice was from a bunch of bestseller and book club lists. It was one of those “family” stories with a sizeable cast of characters. You know the kind — three or four sisters with partners and/or lovers and children and a couple of pets. I was a hundred pages into the […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Know Your Subject, Watch That Continuity

août 9, 2016 by Paul Cipywnyk | 9 commentaires sur Know Your Subject, Watch That Continuity

Blam! Blam! Black Sombrero fired his Colt .45 at the shadow in the barn, then spun and snapped three shots at the posse approaching across the coral. Zing! A shot from behind creased his shoulder, and he wheeled back, fanning four quick shots at the figure in the gaping doorway. Snick. Damn, he was empty! […]

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Susan Glickman

Facts and Fiction: Artful Flight

février 3, 2015 by Susan Glickman

I’d like to recommend two of my favourite books for writers, one ostensibly fiction and the other, not. Except that both are so idiosyncratic, so luminously zany, so full of revelatory insights, humour and poignancy, that generic boundaries seem to melt and what you take away from each is reaffirmation of not only why you […]

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Melva McLean

Continuity in Film and Fiction

juin 4, 2013 by Melva McLean

Movies are usually shot in location order, not narrative order, which makes physical continuity important. Last week I was watching my favourite crime show, and the female lead wore a blue shirt in an interrogation scene. The camera caught the cop’s dialogue in close up, then cut to a close up of the bad guy, […]

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