Post by account_disabled on Dec 4, 2023 19:18:09 GMT -10
I paraphrased an aphorism by Enea Silvio Piccolomini, because I believe it can suit the writer. The more I write, the more I wonder if what I write is good, the more I read my stories, the more I wonder if they can be called stories. It is this constant questioning of every written word that can improve the entire writing. A reread is not enough I'm one of those who rereads and corrects every paragraph and every dialogue he writes. It's kind of a mania. For some it shouldn't be done, but everyone writes as they want: that's how it works for me. When I don't know how to move forward with the story, then I read it all over again.
And by rereading you happen to fix something, change a word, notice a Phone Number Data mistake. One reread is never enough. When I layout the story to publish on the blog, for example, I reread it again and suddenly I notice other errors. Learn proofreading In 2009 I followed an intensive course on proofreading , organized by Bel-Ami Edizioni. It was interesting and I realized that proofreading isn't just about fixing a typo here and there, as I had always imagined. It's not the same as editing , but it's a more complex and thorough process than simply finding typos. The adverb is never a solution Days ago, a self-published writer “recommended” one of his novels to me on Twitter.
So I download the preview on Amazon, read a few pages on my Kindle for PC and choose not to buy it: it was a hymn to adverbs . I even counted almost 20 on one page. From that reading I saw that the adverb became an integral part of the action, as if adding "carefully", "strangely", "finely", etc. can improve the understanding of the event, give more strength to a concept. 10 adverbs on one page is excessive. They create involuntary rhymes. Not only that, but they make the writing immature, amateurish, precisely because inserting too many adverbs is a sort of trick, a shortcut for the novice writer. If you try to read that page aloud, you will hear the annoyance of all those endings in "mind" of the adverbs.
And by rereading you happen to fix something, change a word, notice a Phone Number Data mistake. One reread is never enough. When I layout the story to publish on the blog, for example, I reread it again and suddenly I notice other errors. Learn proofreading In 2009 I followed an intensive course on proofreading , organized by Bel-Ami Edizioni. It was interesting and I realized that proofreading isn't just about fixing a typo here and there, as I had always imagined. It's not the same as editing , but it's a more complex and thorough process than simply finding typos. The adverb is never a solution Days ago, a self-published writer “recommended” one of his novels to me on Twitter.
So I download the preview on Amazon, read a few pages on my Kindle for PC and choose not to buy it: it was a hymn to adverbs . I even counted almost 20 on one page. From that reading I saw that the adverb became an integral part of the action, as if adding "carefully", "strangely", "finely", etc. can improve the understanding of the event, give more strength to a concept. 10 adverbs on one page is excessive. They create involuntary rhymes. Not only that, but they make the writing immature, amateurish, precisely because inserting too many adverbs is a sort of trick, a shortcut for the novice writer. If you try to read that page aloud, you will hear the annoyance of all those endings in "mind" of the adverbs.