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 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...
by David Colin Carr | Sep 17, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
I could have titled this “Beautiful Beyond Words.” I’m curious what you would make of that phrase if you saw it in a book. I’m afraid I interpret it as: the writer doesn’t fully understand what s/he wants to say the writer has no imagination the writer has limited...
by David Colin Carr | Sep 10, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
I’m mortified. The headline for last week’s blog had commas following close-quotation marks. I subscribe to my own blog in order to know when it has been posted. And there was my embarrassment spread across the networks of the world, shamed in front of every...
by David Colin Carr | Aug 20, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
I’ve written before about the importance of imagination for writers. The fundamental importance. I was delighted by Barbara Kingsolver’s as I read her new Flight Behavior. (As I’m writing this, two orange butterflies – not monarchs, but fritillaries which have a...
by David Colin Carr | Aug 12, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
I’ll start the same way I began my last post: I’ve been working with a client on an extraordinary memoir that starts in an idyllic Mennonite farm family in Kentucky and tunnels into a violent marriage that engenders her rage with God. What I heard myself...
