Category: The Red Pen: Five-Minute Easy Edits

• Ernest Hemingway is Your Spirit Animal (or Probably Should Be)

  

  “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” – Ernest Hemingway I can get behind that. “Papa” Hemingway’s novels are masterpieces of verbal economy—perennial favorites on high school reading lists because of their brevity. You read Hemingway, and you just know he…

  Merry Gordon

  September 6, 2017

  The Red Pen: Five-Minute Easy Edits

  edit, editing, Hemingway, self-editing

• The Manuscript Diet

  

  Looking to whittle down your word count? Here are three simple ways to cut the fat. Eliminate passive voice Remember this from elementary school? Passive voice is the difference between “The boy kicked the ball” and “The ball was kicked by the boy.” In the former, the subject (boy) is doing the action—in this case,…

  Merry Gordon

  August 3, 2017

  The Red Pen: Five-Minute Easy Edits, Uncategorized, Writing Tip

  edit, editing, editor, self-editing