Editting

[NOIRTRASH]

My latest effort swelled to 105,000 words then I trimmed it to 60,000. Seven chapters are now 4. The style is a cousin of a Quentin Tarantino movie like PULP FICTION and NATURAL BORN KILLERS. There's even a dog character.

Mostly I removed characters with no purpose. All the characters are the deplorables Hillary detests: the females are all drunks and whores, all the blacks are whores and pimps and drug dealers, all the white husbands are fags, and all the Italians and Spanish are killers.

I like the very last scene. Its clever. The whore wife of a crime lord hires two guys to assassinate the man when he comes home. All are poised to shoot him when he walks thru the garage door. But he never walks thru the garage door. He remains in the garage with the gunslingers he brought home.

 

[rjordan]

Your title needs editing.

rj

 

[Carnevil9]

Your title needs editing.

rj

I assumed he was being meta.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Your title needs editing.

rj

Fess up. Youre an old Democrat commie with no sense of humor.

 

[TxRad]

Fess up. Youre an old Democrat commie with no sense of humor.

No, but you're an old Repulgican with no sense of humor.

 

[Gwanji16]

I think this discussion likely would be more appropriate on a political thread, since you are really not asking for help, although you definitely need it. You are just trying to make a political point, albeit in a clumsy and misogynistic way. Happy editing!

 

[TxRad]

I think this discussion likely would be more appropriate on a political thread, since you are really not asking for help, although you definitely need it. You are just trying to make a political point, albeit in a clumsy and misogynistic way. Happy editing!

It didn't take you long to figure out our pet troll. Not that we wanted a pet troll you understand but we seem to be stuck with him.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I think this discussion likely would be more appropriate on a political thread, since you are really not asking for help, although you definitely need it. You are just trying to make a political point, albeit in a clumsy and misogynistic way. Happy editing!

Then please make a complaint.

 

[NicoleZ]

It didn't take you long to figure out our pet troll. Not that we wanted a pet troll you understand but we seem to be stuck with him.

May I, ever so humbly, point out a mistake in your spelling? You seem to have rendered the initial letter of the first person plural in the common case. Just a trifling detail!

 

[TxRad]

May I, ever so humbly, point out a mistake in your spelling? You seem to have rendered the initial letter of the first person plural in the common case. Just a trifling detail!

I'm glad you pointed that out.

 

[NicoleZ]

We aim to please.

 

[TxRad]

I think a lot of people misunderstand what an editor does. Yes, they edit the grammar and spelling in a story. That is the easy part. The hard part is learning to leave well enough alone so they don't suck the style and texture out of the words.

Another part of their job is to catch problems, errors, or conflicts within the story. They also mark places where the story is not clear or confusing. You also have proofreaders for this same job.

 

[rjordan]

Fess up. Youre an old Democrat commie with no sense of humor.

Close. I'm an old Democratic socialist with a sense of irony.

rj

 

[rjordan]

I think a lot of people misunderstand what an editor does. Yes, they edit the grammar and spelling in a story. That is the easy part. The hard part is learning to leave well enough alone so they don't suck the style and texture out of the words.

Another part of their job is to catch problems, errors, or conflicts within the story. They also mark places where the story is not clear or confusing. You also have proofreaders for this same job.

This has absolutely nothing to do with a political thread. Why is it here?

rj

 

[TxRad]

This has absolutely nothing to do with a political thread. Why is it here?

rj

Hey! You've got politics in the writing thread.

Hey! You've got writing in the political thread.

Have a Reeses instead.

 

[redzinger]

My latest effort swelled to 105,000 words then I trimmed it to 60,000. Seven chapters are now 4.

Suggests that the writing of the first draft was rather bloated. Thought you didn't like extraneous shit?

 

[sr71plt]

Suggests that the writing of the first draft was rather bloated. Thought you didn't like extraneous shit?

Oh, he makes it all up as he goes along. Nice point, by the way.

 

[rjordan]

Hey! You've got politics in the writing thread.

Hey! You've got writing in the political thread.

Have a Reeses instead.

Hypoxia would recommend adding tentacles.

rj

 

[TxRad]

Hypoxia would recommend adding tentacles.

rj

And then you end up with sticky tentacles.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Suggests that the writing of the first draft was rather bloated. Thought you didn't like extraneous shit?

Revisit the part where I cut the size almost 50%.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I added 15000 words from my salvage pile.

Make everything a 5 alarm wild animal act. None of that TxRat Fear & Feelings swill for snowflakes