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 22, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
When I prepare an estimate for a client, I almost always write up some first impressions that will orient how I go about the editing process. I may or may not also include a scan of three or five pages that I have marked up in hardcopy. (Part of preparing an estimate...
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...
by David Colin Carr | Oct 8, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
If you write or read memoir, In the Body of the World will reshape what you think memoir can be or do. A lot of my memoir clients are writing about sexual abuse. And there is an enormous need in our culture for people to clear their souls of the distress of invasion...