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Yeah I'm exaggerating a bit to prove a point, but even so, each nip and tuck is an new sentence fragment written and an old sentence fragment discarded. The mor
by bccdee 4y ago
Yeah I'm exaggerating a bit to prove a point, but even so, each nip and tuck is an new sentence fragment written and an old sentence fragment discarded. The more you edit, the smaller the ratio of what you publish to what you wrote.
- ghaff 4y agoFair enough. But I do this sort of thing all the time and--assuming I have a clear topic in mind and the supporting material (big caveats which can take quite a bit of time)--banging out a thousand word article is certainly less than a day process. And, yes, while a fair number of words change or change positions or get reworded, that sort of essentially copy-editing is mostly stuff I can do in my sleep.