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Smash all the Windows: the copy edit
This week we come to the copy edit. The structure is in place. The beta readers have had their say. It’s getting interesting. I first approached John Hudspith when I was working on My Counterfeit Self because I felt that I needed to be challenged a little more. He steered my writing in subtle ways to…
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Smash all the Windows: the structural edit
In this week’s blog, I focus on the structural edit. It includes a contribution from my structural editor, Dan Holloway, the person Stephen Fry might have had in mind when he said, “We are not nouns, we are verbs.” “I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who…
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