Rough Day
I had a rough day today. Lauren went to work, and no matter how much prancing around I did, she still left. She keeps telling me someone has to bring home the bacon. Sad part is, Lightning loves bacon, not me. The geriatric cat slept all day. I tried to get her to chase me. But nope. The old girl keeps saying, “You try to run harry scary when you’re nineteen and tell me how that goes.”
Then Lauren comes home, minus the bacon. Ha ha Lightning. Then I’m ordered off the printer. Well, how am I to edit her work unless I read it right hot off the press? Seriously, how’s a gal to get anything done?
Work Arrangement
Lauren is writing away and has the nerve to shoo me off the desk. Did she forget we have a working arrangement? She writes, I edit. That’s that way it works. Well fine then, I’ll sit on my pillow grab some z’s. Better yet, I’ll dig out my Editing book 101 and brush up on my skills.
Editing 101
Let’s see…
1. Give the reader credit. Yeah, won’t do to dump a pile of information on the page that the readers already know.
2. Staging. Steer clear. Lauren loves her staging. She keeps on describing every little movement and detail her character does. I have to fix all of it and just get to the action.
3. Cut needless words. I love that one. If you remove a section and it doesn’t change anything, get rid of it.
4. Cut the word “it”. Now there’s a tough one. Sometimes you add to your word count, but it deepens the scene. Hard to cut them out of dialog though. So, I’ll let Lauren keep a few of those.
Well, the article is printing, time for me to get to work. And I’m glad Lauren forgot the bacon. I’d rather be paid in treats any day.
Later Peeps
Nutmeg