by David Colin Carr | Dec 17, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
December 17, 2013 Much as I appreciate integrity in others, I try to act with integrity myself. So I’m finding myself in a quandary. At our last BAIPA meeting (www.baipa.org – our local network of people involved in all aspects of self-publishing) I offered to write a...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 10, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
December 10, 2013 A writing colleague through my professional network of independent publishers (the PC term for self-publisher) asked if I would do a sample edit of one chapter so she could compare it to the work of other editors she was considering hiring. I have...
by David Colin Carr | Dec 3, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
2 December, 2013 This blog usually arises from the challenge of my work week. But following the move, I ran off for a week’s vacation that had been planned a year earlier. I returned last night and have been so brain dead that I had not a thought about my professional...
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 19, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
18 November, 2013 More analogies on moving to a new home – a process which allowed no time to blog last week. The biggest one is the endless paring down. Asking over and over: “What serves the finished product?” For a book, that question is a bit easier to grasp than...
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...