My statistics tell me that there has been a large number of page visits, as usual it is British Bulldog that draws the crowds as does discussion of Edmund Marlowe's "Alexander's Choice". I am glad I did not see that book before I wrote Scholarship as in some ways the story is not dissimilar, but that is hardly surprising when both are set in boarding schools.
Showing posts with label Editing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Editing. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Monday, 28 January 2013
New Version of Scholarship
With the kind help of N Fourbois acting as editor, there is now a revised version of Scholarship. It has been uploaded to lulu.com and will appear at Amazon.com in due course.
Editing is more than just correcting a few typos and (my weakness) overly complex sentence structures (sorted by exchanging some commas for full stops), it is also about being asked occasionally why you wrote what you did.
The best example of the latter is my comment about Michaelmas being an odd name for the autumn term. This is a classic error rooted in my childhood (I have a habit of mistaking one word for another), I always mistook Michealmas for Christmas. I have now been educated as to the difference (Michaelmas is actually totally separate for Christmas and occurs around the 29th of September).
Some interesting discussions also ensued on the names of positions in a rugby team (my editor is fortunately someone who knows the game well) and the change from holding around the waist to Sacha's hold on me which was up between the legs holding on to my waist.
A couple of sentences have changed as a result, I hope for the better!
Editing is more than just correcting a few typos and (my weakness) overly complex sentence structures (sorted by exchanging some commas for full stops), it is also about being asked occasionally why you wrote what you did.
The best example of the latter is my comment about Michaelmas being an odd name for the autumn term. This is a classic error rooted in my childhood (I have a habit of mistaking one word for another), I always mistook Michealmas for Christmas. I have now been educated as to the difference (Michaelmas is actually totally separate for Christmas and occurs around the 29th of September).
Some interesting discussions also ensued on the names of positions in a rugby team (my editor is fortunately someone who knows the game well) and the change from holding around the waist to Sacha's hold on me which was up between the legs holding on to my waist.
A couple of sentences have changed as a result, I hope for the better!
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