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The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself by Susan Bell

abwell's review

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informative medium-paced

4.0

kaijintaylor's review

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4.0

Not your average "tips and tricks" book. Filled with lots of philosophy and history. Some impactful, some not. A 3-star experience. I wanted a book on improving my own self-editing, which isn't quite what I got. It'll give a 4 for what it is.

harridansstew's review

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5.0

A very useful book for myself and an editing class I just taught. Recommend.

justplainbeth's review

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informative medium-paced

4.0

temsu's review

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

ellamaozjo's review

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informative fast-paced

4.0

need_more_meta's review

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challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

lanais's review

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informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

One of the most useful books I've read as a writer who struggles with revison.

sharonskinner's review

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Excellent resource for writers.

cnorbury's review

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4.0

Worth reading if only for the fascinating accounts of the writer-editor relationship between F.Scott Fitzgerald and Max Perkins. Really got into the back and forth of the editing process and illustrated how a suggestion phrased the right way resulted in a superior finished sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, even an entire book.

Specific self-editing techniques weren't discussed so much as the idea of constructing the editing process, big-picture editing vs. micro-editing.

Interesting but perhaps of lesser importance to newer writers searching for more of a "how-to" guide to editing was the section on the history of editors.

Not I book I'll add to my writer's toolbox, but well worth reading.