How a writer’s work isn’t done just because the first draft is. The first draft. It’s an idealized thing. A dump of words on the page, we revel as the tally climbs up, and up, and up. We take the challenge in November or any time at all with daily goals. We think we’ve won […]
Category: editing
Moving Commas
“I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.” — Oscar Wilde I liked reporting well enough, I liked meeting people and chasing news. But when I became an editor, I connected to journalism and to the crafting of words in a deeper way. […]