by Ragini Werner | 20 January 2024 | Editing
Some people can write with both hands. If you can, you’re ambidextrous, a word derived from the Latin roots ambi-, meaning “both”, and dexter, meaning “favorable” or “right”. I can’t write with both hands (I’m left-handed) but...
by Ragini Werner | 15 January 2024 | Editing
Now that we’ve dealt with the importance of having an A-1 attitude to fixing our mistakes, let’s move on to the B that stands at the basis of self-editing. No, not that “body language”, meaning the movements and gestures people and animals use...
by Ragini Werner | 10 January 2024 | Editing
Now that we’ve developed the write Attitude (ha-ha) and can read and write Body Language, let’s move on to the next stage of successful self-editing. This is sometimes called “mechanical editing.” In this round you should be doing very little...
by Ragini Werner | 20 December 2023 | Editing
So far this series has covered three main aspects of self-editing. Part 1 (A is for Attitude) focused on preparation. No one’s perfect. All of us make mistakes and it doesn’t actually matter if we do, so long as we fix what’s gone wrong. If we...