Yippy Skippy Line Edit

[EUOL]

You know, I've noticed that Scott Card has a very terse style when he writes.  There's almost a blunt forcefulness to his prose.  I wonder if that's how he edits.

[House of Mustard]

I don't think I like that idea.  Think of what that would do to Dickens?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

vastly improve it?

I'm not a fan of Dickins.

[House of Mustard]

Well, I bet he doesn't like you either.  Punk.

[fuzzyoctopus]

SE has always been a punk.  Improve it? I bet he's a Hemingway fan.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yes. I'm very punk. Used to dye my hair and listen to the Sex Pistols and everything. OI!

No, uhm... really. I don't like Hemmingway. I do like Steinbeck, though.

[EUOL]

The thing that kept me from taking Dave's advise in this area is that I just didn't like his prose.  He's a good writer, but his actual sentence constructions don't seem to have much life.  Then again, neither do Scott's--but he seems to have that terse style down better than Dave.

[EUOL]

Well, 15k (70 pages) cut so far.  Maybe I should collect all of the random words I've cut and throw them together.  I'd have a novella!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I hates you.

I mean,... congrats!

[Mistress of Darkness]

Dickens got paid per word. That would make anyone verbose. Dickens was just able to do it well.

Wow, EUOL. That's probably more than I've written in my life.

[EUOL]

Heh.  Final word count?  35k cut.  155 pages manuscript.  My editor was glad to hear it.