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kaijintaylor's review
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
5.0
A very useful book for myself and an editing class I just taught. Recommend.
lanais's review
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
One of the most useful books I've read as a writer who struggles with revison.
cnorbury's review
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.
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.