Posts Tagged ‘editing’

Edit This Post on Editing

Readers of Tim Ferriss's 2007 book The Four-Hour Workweek might be familiar with a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery that appears on page 65 of the book: "Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away." This is especially evident in writing. Free-writing is the process of assembling raw material, but careful editing is like sculpture or construction. It is the process of… Continue reading

November 3 2008 | By Art | Tagged: editing, language, student, style, writing | 5 comments»

How to Write (in a thousand words or less)

I’ve written about editing, eliminating distractions, getting started – it’s time to get down to basics. Too many people don’t know how to write. Period. Yeah, they can make marks on paper, but when it comes to making a clear, compelling, and meaningful statement, especially one more than 140 characters long, they fail.

So here, in no particular order, are 17 ways to make your… Continue reading

June 11 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, communicating, editing, student, writing | 25 comments»

Polish Your Writing to Professionalism: Three Tips for Self-Editing

The ability to write without errors is crucial, whether you are writing for the whole world to see, or just your department. Even a few typos can make a writer look beyond unprofessional — errors imply laziness and poor presentation in much the same way that a stained shirt shows a lack of effort at a business meeting.But, important as good spelling and grammar are, errors can slip… Continue reading

April 17 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: editing, grammar, proofreading, spelling, writing | 18 comments»

The Ultimate Writing Productivity Resource

Last week, I launched a new site I'd been working on for several months, dedicated to technology and the writing life. Since I've been eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping "writing" all week, it seemed natural to pull together some of the tools, sites, and Lifehack.org tips I know of that can help make writers more productive, organized, and creative.

Note: Maybe you don't consider yourself a… Continue reading

March 31 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, editing, publishing, revision, writers, writing | 71 comments»

Improve Your Writing with these Editing Tips

Teachers, business people, and just about everyone else it seems complain often and loudly that people today (usually "kids today") don't know how to write. I'm convinced, though, that a big part of the problem (perhaps the biggest part of the problem) is that people don't know how to edit. We labor under the notion that good writing flows easily from the pen or typing fingers, and… Continue reading

November 2 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, Communication, editing, howto, student, writing | 84 comments»

Writing Apps for Bloggers

Although you can write your articles in Microsoft Word or any such software, you might want to test the waters for some alternatives. Online and offline, there is a plethora of options in the blog editing/word processing field.ScribeFirePreviously run at Performancing.com this editor runs within your Firefox browser as an add-on. There is no inline spellcheck, but if you get Google Toolbar for Firefox, you can enable… Continue reading

April 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, editing, writer, writers, writing | 20 comments»

Advice for students: Homework-eating dogs, and how to avoid them

"And then, when I tried to print my essay, it disappeared!"

The technology of word-processing has made available a rich array of explanations, fictional and non-fictional, for students in difficulty with deadlines. Most teachers and professors have grown tired of these explanations, so that even a genuine one is likely to ring false. Truly, the computer has become the high-tech version of the dog that ate the homework. Here are four… Continue reading

February 8 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: editing, software, studying | 8 comments»

Edit My Life – Please

Look at Dad take pictures of little Joey go down the playground slide. Wait – hasn’t he taken about 100 shots of that little boy this morning? Oh yeah – digital – our lives are digital now. Content is overwhelming: words, images, sounds. That same proud Dad uploaded this week's most precious 150 images to the Joey’s Cute website, so all his dedicated fans can view the little darling.Those phone photographers are in play too. The phone is now a ubiquitous capture device making no one immune from the serendipitous photographer documenting our most inelegant moments. Unedited, they’re thrown up on Flickr.com for your viewing pleasure – often for everyone’s viewing pleasure.Pleasure? I’m not so sure. Just like those jokes we used to forward through email as web-neophytes, they swiftly become annoying. We learned only to forward those that were extra-specially, extraordinarily hilarious. The best ones traveled the internet like a virus, but as with a healthy immune system, minor viruses are cured. Who’s going to cure the information overload virus? Who's going to help me edit my life? Continue reading

February 3 2006 | By Bruce | Tagged: creative, creativity, digital, editing, photo, photography, Productivity | 1 comment»

The 8 Basic Steps of Image Editing

Digerati University has asked Matt LeClair, the author of Photoshop in a Nutshell to contribute a pretty good article on some basic image editing. He introduces 8 steps, from crop, rotate and scale to improve sharpness. The step on fixing color and contrast using Curves tool is probably the single most important thing to edit any photos. Some of its readers mentioned about saving the scaling till the last… Continue reading

November 14 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: editing, image, photoshop, software | 1 comment»