Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?
b'The microphones again find us aboard the\\xa0Independence of the Seas*,\\xa0to talk about how terribly ugly this manuscript is, and what we can do to make it pretty. In this episode we drill down on line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph revisions. This stage of the revision process is where our prose gets wordsmithed. This episode runs long, touching on:
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\\n\\t* Punching up the pacing
\\n\\t* Turning things upside down
\\n\\t* Parallelisms
\\n\\t* Adverbial compression,
\\n\\t* The pyramid of abstraction
\\n\\t* Free and direct thought
\\n\\t* Replacing negative-information descriptions
\\n\\t* extreme editing exercises like "one sentence per concept."
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\\nObviously if you want more than just the bullet points you\'ll need to have a listen...
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