Action/Adventure: August 05, 2020 Issue [#10309]
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 This week: Adventures with Editors
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
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"On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” ~Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


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Letter from the editor

Recently I had to give a speech over zoom, and I wanted it to have it organized, but it was getting late. We've all been pressed by the deadline, right?

So I called a friend, who I know is good at wrangling these types of speeches. She helps her husband do it all the time. I sent her the words, and she sent them back, 95% of what I wrote, indicated where I needed better transitions, and rearranged most of the paragraphs.

The end result was much cleaner, easier to follow my logic, and included all of the points I wanted to touch on. I knew I was getting lost on tangents, but my brain was literally focusing on every different direction it could go, and not in the narrow way I wanted it to go.

Once rearranged, I could much more easily smooth the pieces together, and my speech went smoothly.

Why does that relate to action and adventure? Later that night, I was back at my space pirate story, and suddenly I saw the pieces that weren't fitting - I had to rearrange part of it to make sense, just like my speech. I needed more information in one spot, and I marked that (I'm still working on that, because it's a longer project and I don't expect it to be done anytime soon.)

That realization was like a I had been shaken. It reminded me of listening to a reading by Ann Patchett. She has her first reader, Elizabeth McCracken. Ann talked about how she had finally learned the things that Elizabeth would be commenting on, and she evolved to know these things, but as Elizabeth also evolved as an editor, she found new things to point out.

Who do you take to be your first reader? Your editing partner? How long is that relationship, and how do you feel that you have evolved together? I know I've worked with a few, and I know who to call when I'm stuck. Though I'm still developing those relatoinships as I go.


Editor's Picks

 The Flood. Open in new Window. (E)
A flood story.
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Round one entry for "The Curse" in Clash.
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 A Long Way Home Open in new Window. (13+)
Drifter seeks to protect others and discovers a truth.
#2228316 by debmiller1 Author IconMail Icon

 
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Mary Soaring Eagle achieves her dream of becoming the first female POTUS.
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 The Entire World is A Dark Grey Open in new Window. (13+)
A found poem made from the book Fahrenheit 451
#2228127 by Zeethura Author IconMail Icon

 Fractured Open in new Window. (18+)
Adventure/Horror Novel in the works. Let me know what you think. Enjoy :)
#2228082 by Bella Rylee Author IconMail Icon

 
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