SAVVY SELF-EDITING
Master the rewrite with quick
and easy editing techniques:
- Changing from the writing to the editing side of the brain.
- Editing on the computer.
- Editing in three stages.
- “Savvy” Tips for quick & easy editing techniques.
- “At-a-glance” Charts help writers visualize the basic dramatic form and apply it to their work.
- Narrative techniques to add color, clarity and vividness to prose.
- Show, don't tell.
- Dialogue know-how.
- Transition and Flashbacks.
- Modeling the Masters.
- Tone, Style & Voice.
- Structure and Plotting.
- Scene Building and Pacing.
- Character Development.
- Point-of-View…and more!
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Welcome to
Savvy Self-Editing
“the complete approach to editing.”
Most editing books cover only two or three aspects of writing, such as grammar, language and style, but not structure, characterization or point-of-view. Few cover line editing; almost none, proofreading. None gives a total picture of the editing process—and it is a process.
Tony Jaymes' book brings all the different aspects of writing and editing together to help writers develop their own editing process. Her unique guide on “the complete approach” to editing is packed with how-to examples, quick tips, and “at-a-glance” charts to ease the writer's job of putting black on white. It can be used to improve all types of writing, from magazine articles to screenplays. Good writing is dramatic writing.
SAVVY SELF-EDITING is divided into four parts . Like Strunk & White's THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, Tony Jaymes' book has a concise, easy-to-use format:
• PART I gets the writer off to a fast start in editing.
• PART II gets to the core of editing .
• PART III shows the writer how to spot and fix Structure, Plotting, Scene Building , POV, and Character Development problems.
• PART IV is packed with how-to examples and ways to solve writing and editing problems.
Universities, Community Colleges, Writer's Conferences, and Writing Teachers use SAVVY SELF-EDITING in their creative writing courses and on their reference syllabus. |
