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 | Jul 30, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
I think it might be interesting to know what my feedback on a piece of writing might look like. As I work up an estimate, I often make notes about the patterns I see that will need to be revised. These might function as a guide for the writer to edit their piece...
by David Colin Carr | Jun 18, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing
I’ve had some 60 rejections of the one fiction piece I’ve submitted to agents, even agents with whom I have some collegial relationship. The most memorable rejection is the first, not because it was the first, but because it was a xerox of a xerox of a xerox of a...
by David Colin Carr | May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing
My buddy – a broadcast journalist of many years who published his first book two years ago and recently uploaded five ebooks to Amazon’s Kindle store – announced that he is a writer, no longer someone wanting to be a writer or someone trying to write. That observation...