The lost art of editing
Shortly after reading Alex Clark’s excellent piece in The Guardian yesterday on the lost art of editing, I reopened a much-praised novel I’ve been reading. A passage began “His rise through this world had been meteoric”. Surely the editor should have spotted that thumping cliche . . .
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@gemmadunnchile He did; I'm trying not to be envious.
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RT @gemmadunnchile: Wise? 'I reluctantly & ultimately had to eliminate "Readers' Selections" from Frommer guidebooks' http://t.co/wABXPotOX…
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Stieg (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Larsson on the Trans-Siberian Railway in a piece from his book The Expo Files: http://t.co/lAeANSxTCq
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RT @ZCWcharlie: Delighted to announce @zerocarbonworld has been shortlisted by @AutomotivePR #tweetcharity competition http://t.co/Jc5wA1Ii…
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"Congolese playing Mexican music to lure Uruguayan soldiers into spending American dollars": that's Goma, in the DRC http://t.co/hJDbykvP40
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Excellent Robert Macfarlane piece in @intlifemag on the 'landscape of the mind' created by Cormac McCarthy: http://t.co/lAcXa1dC0h
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I just posted Leopards in India – on the streets of Mumbai. Read it here: http://t.co/si1sbgQ52q




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