Writing and Reading Wednesday

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Who’s Leonid Brezhnev? – Writing and Reading Wednesday

Cleaning out my bookshelves, I pulled up Iain Reid’s excellent I’m Thinking of Ending Things. It was a great Netflix movie–directed by Charlie Kaufman–, one that made me ask “how the heck did he do this in writing?”¹, and I found it one night I happened to be in a store. The movie crossover edition. It’s got questions for your book club in the back. (This is all catnip for me.) And yet it got buried behind layers of other … Continue reading “Who’s Leonid Brezhnev? – Writing and Reading Wednesday”

Find Text (Strings) across Multiple Files – Writing and Reading Wednesday

This trick has helped me immensely. In my Copy Editing work, I frequently have to check how previous versions of documents used a word or phrase. Was it capitalized? Was it italicized? One of the ways I do this is by building up a style guide. But there are always words you didn’t realize you would need to check. Here is how you can check other files for a text string¹, and see how the word or phrase was used. … Continue reading “Find Text (Strings) across Multiple Files – Writing and Reading Wednesday”

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Follow the Idea – Writing & Reading Wednesday

“The idea is the whole thing. If you stay true to the idea, it tells you everything you need to know, really. You just keep working to make it look like that idea looked, feel like it felt, sound like it sounded, and be the way it was. And it’s weird, because when you veer off, you sort of know it. You know when you’re doing something that is not correct because it feels incorrect. It says, ‘No, no; this … Continue reading “Follow the Idea – Writing & Reading Wednesday”