Shouts From Down Under

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John the Baptist once said

I must decrease for Him to increase (John 3:30 KJ Version)

This simple statement applies, it seems, not only in the spreading of the gospel message but, I believe, is also applicable to writers.
When a writer tells a story the story drawing power, or realness, improves the more the writer becomes invisible.
John was a messenger, as are writers.
He wanted to preach the gospel of gods message, not tell a story of himself.
Unless our writings are an autobiography then the story isn't ours.
We don't own the story. We are just relating events that happen to characters, so we need to be invisible, the more the better.
We can merely print a story, that is, write words with a pencil on paper or printed on a sheet of A4, or we can TELL it.

Do you find editing a boring chore?

Bubble wrap editing:







Mistakes in our writing, such as spelling, punctuation and grammar, are like loud bubbles being popped while the reader is trying to concentrate. So each pop heard is another distraction, diverting their attention from your story, lifting them a little more out of the immersion in the world you created.
Of course, you don't want this to happen, so a good idea is, instead of looking at editing and correction as a tiresome chore, think of it as popping bubble wrap before the story is ready to be offered to any reader. This way, they get a better reading experience, and you get to find those nice hard little gremlin bubbles hiding like rare quest items, and you can enjoy not only the challenging game of finding them, but the fun in popping each one.

Editing is fun if we have the right, positive, frame of mind.

I don't. And popping bubbles doesn't interest me at all. But, yeah. You have to try to be positive and make some sort of show at fitting in, conforming to the material requirements of this world.

Otherwise you might be edited out of it.



(I was deciding on which sauces to have on a Sub footlong.)

But while dead authors really are invisible, their stories live on, what they said lives on. (See previous blog about stories living on. This is just an echo from there)

Sparky