Comments on: The Last-Glance Editing Checklist http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/04/checklist/ Editor -- Substantive and Copyediting: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:52:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Friday Link-up | J. Mark Miller | A Writer's Fantasy http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/04/checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-6761 Friday Link-up | J. Mark Miller | A Writer's Fantasy Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:32:01 +0000 http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/?p=991#comment-6761 [...] The Last-Glance Editing Checklist at Gabrielle Edits [...] [...] The Last-Glance Editing Checklist at Gabrielle Edits [...]

]]> By: Marty Halpern http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/04/checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-6740 Marty Halpern Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:28:17 +0000 http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/?p=991#comment-6740 <em>Now, how do we keep them from spelling it three different ways?</em> ROTFLMAO! - marty Now, how do we keep them from spelling it three different ways?

ROTFLMAO!
- marty

]]> By: Gabrielle http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/04/checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-6738 Gabrielle Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:04:00 +0000 http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/?p=991#comment-6738 <i>Consistency, consistency, consistency... Should be tattooed backwards on every writer’s forehead so that they can see it correctly whenever they look in the mirror.</i> It absolutely should! Now, how do we keep them from spelling it three different ways? :) Consistency, consistency, consistency… Should be tattooed backwards on every writer’s forehead so that they can see it correctly whenever they look in the mirror.

It absolutely should! Now, how do we keep them from spelling it three different ways?

:)

]]> By: Marty Halpern http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/04/checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-6737 Marty Halpern Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:51:27 +0000 http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/?p=991#comment-6737 This post is dearly after my own heart. I can't tell you how frustrated I get editing manuscript after manuscript in which the author can't keep straight the names of his/her own characters; the use of the same word in three different forms (compound, open, and hyphenated); "OK" and "okay" and "alright" and "all right" -- all used in the same story; capitalizing titles and "mother" and "father" when they are not used in place of names or as part of direct address; en-dashes and em-dashes, sometimes with a space before and after, or just before, or just after, or no spaces at all; same goes for ellipses. AARRGGHH!! And I'm not talking just novice writers here either; I'm talking about "big name" award-winning authors, too. Even if the author is writing it incorrectly, at least be bloody consistent throughout the entire manuscript! Consistency, consistency, consistency... Should be tattooed backwards on every writer's forehead so that they can see it correctly whenever they look in the mirror. Marty Halpern This post is dearly after my own heart. I can’t tell you how frustrated I get editing manuscript after manuscript in which the author can’t keep straight the names of his/her own characters; the use of the same word in three different forms (compound, open, and hyphenated); “OK” and “okay” and “alright” and “all right” — all used in the same story; capitalizing titles and “mother” and “father” when they are not used in place of names or as part of direct address; en-dashes and em-dashes, sometimes with a space before and after, or just before, or just after, or no spaces at all; same goes for ellipses. AARRGGHH!! And I’m not talking just novice writers here either; I’m talking about “big name” award-winning authors, too.

Even if the author is writing it incorrectly, at least be bloody consistent throughout the entire manuscript! Consistency, consistency, consistency… Should be tattooed backwards on every writer’s forehead so that they can see it correctly whenever they look in the mirror.

Marty Halpern

]]> By: Dan Dan The Art Man http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/2010/02/04/checklist/comment-page-1/#comment-6735 Dan Dan The Art Man Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:47:04 +0000 http://www.gabrielle-edits.com/?p=991#comment-6735 Awesome advice, and very helpful! I'm going to be editing a manuscript soon, and this is great stuff to keep in my mind while going through it. Thanks for the post! Oh yeah, and I liked "Swimming Lessons" on P.G. Holyfield's Tales of the Children, great stuff. Awesome advice, and very helpful! I’m going to be editing a manuscript soon, and this is great stuff to keep in my mind while going through it. Thanks for the post! Oh yeah, and I liked “Swimming Lessons” on P.G. Holyfield’s Tales of the Children, great stuff.

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