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 | Sep 24, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing
September 23, 2013 This week I’ve been doing a read-through of a novel about sexual abuse of boys. The reason the author feels this is a topic not much written about is at the heart of the book: the shame. Especially in a culture that treats homosexuality as aberrant,...
by David Colin Carr | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing
PLEASE DON’T MISS THE END OF THE BLOG WHERE I ASK FOR YOUR OPINION. I suspect this is going to be the first in a series of articles based on the various dances I do as I work with different clients. I don’t mean dances pejoratively. Each writer is distinctive in...
by David Colin Carr | Jul 9, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized
Unfortunately, the term editors is often assumed by writers with manuscripts to sell (as well as by the organizers of writers conferences) to mean acquisition editors. These are a writer’s first contact with a publishing house. Their job is to screen submissions for...
by David Colin Carr | Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing
CONTEXT (why I’m writing, or what situation I want to bring attention to): I’m riffing off a blog piece by my colleague Joel Friedlander, TheBookDesigner, on (TOPIC:) learning sequence. People’s minds tend to process information in sequential patterns, so writers need...
