by David Colin Carr | Jan 20, 2014 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
20 January 2014 This week I received a career memoir that the writer has been working on for 38 years. I was skeptical when he told me it was the first of five volumes. The autobiography of famous leaders usually fits in one volume, even though autobiography needs a...
by David Colin Carr | Jan 13, 2014 | Book Reviews, Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
13 January, 2014 If you know writers who are unhappily single, be sure to pass this advice along to them. Don’t be blatant about it – you don’t want to embarrass them. Slip it under their door when you know they’re not home. Use someone else’s printer for anonymity....
by David Colin Carr | Nov 26, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
November 15, 2013 I often read opening paragraphs of my favorite books to my clients with the intention of inspiring them to capture their reader in the first two paragraphs while symbolizing the depth of the content that will follow. So much time that I was sure I...
by David Colin Carr | Nov 4, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
November 4, 2013 There are a lot of parallels between moving and the editorial process. I’m taking a month off from my clients to deal with changing location after fifteen years, so I’m in the middle of discovering these. In the beginning was the raw idea that I...
by David Colin Carr | Oct 29, 2013 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing
October 28, 2013 [A brief note on Blog Titles. For SEO (search engine optimization), limit title to 70 characters, including spaces. And choose words that people are likely to search for. If that’s a corset that you need help squeezing into, welcome to the fashions of...
by David Colin Carr | Oct 15, 2013 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing
Don’t miss We Need New Names. Enough said, but here are some quotes and why writers can learn from her brilliant voice and kaleidoscopic point of view. Not quite as wild as Eve Ensler’s (see last week’s blog), but unsettlingly dramatic. The novel is written in first...