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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Editing Dirty Realism: the difference between baby and bathwater
The other day I found some old school exercise books in my cupboard. Labelled 4/C on the covers (the letter stood for the teacher’s name), these books date from when I was nine. I flipped through them, idly looking for … Continue reading
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Tagged copyediting, dirty realism, Gordon Lish, minimalism, Raymond Carver, structural editing
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