editing

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

Writing Tip:Don't let the "writing rules" bog you down when you're writing the first draft; they don't matter when you're writing the story, only when you're editing the story.

So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts _ written by various men years after the death of your man Jesus _ that have been edited and selected out of hundreds of other documents, and bound together into one hotchpotch volume, under the orders of a political primate, Pope Damasus. And, you__e still content to condemn the living love I feel here and now, because of that dusty accident of bad editing? Why?

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing? Or that, in writing, there's nothing you can describe in any page-filling paragraph that can't be captured better in just a sentence or two? Perhaps even nothing in any sentence which cannot better be refined in a single, spot-on word? Does it not follow, then, that there's likely nothing one can say in any word - in saying anything at all - that, ultimately, isn't better left unsaid? (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)