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Posted on 30 September 2024
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OEO = overcoming editing overwhelm The best way of 'overcoming' editing overwhelm is to avoid it hitting you in the first place. But, it can hit anyway! So, in this post and the previous one, I offer two strategies: the first strategy was from my Editing the RedPen Way and this one is from Vee Freir's excellent book: Calm Yourself. In the previous post, I also introduced my 'team' ...

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Posted on 2 September 2024
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OEO = overcoming editing overwhelm The best way of 'overcoming' editing overwhelm? While prevention is better than cure, we may need both preventative tactics and cure tactics. So, in this post and the next, I offer two strategies: The first strategy is adapted from steps 1-3 of my RedPen Editing cycle as explained in my book: Editing the RedPen Way. The second strategy, in the next post, will be based on...

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Posted on 29 July 2024
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Editing is fun? I try hard to make editing fun or, at least, to encourage fellow writers to approach editing (and life in general) with a good sense of humour. In my RedPen Editing Facebook group, I post a joke every Sunday with the suggestion 'If you are to enjoy your editing as much as your writing, a sense of humour is essential'. Indeed, I strive to include images in both the...

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Posted on 1 July 2024
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Document Variables have occupied this space for several months of this year: We started 2024 with Placeholders: Introduction to Document Variables In February, it was Placeholders: Title as a Document Variable Then, we had Placeholders: Label, Status, Keywords and Synopsis Then Placeholders: Statistics as a Document Variable And Placeholders: Date/Time as a Document Variable We have two loose ends to tidy up before we can draw a line under Document Variables. Then,...

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Posted on 3 June 2024
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This is the fifth of several blog posts which focus on Document Variables. Here's a reminder of the previous four: Placeholders: Introduction to Document Variables considered the extent of these placeholders and provided an introduction to this topic. Placeholders: Title as a Document Variable looked at Title and ParentTitle. Placeholders: Label, Status, Keywords and Synopsis explained these four most important meta data items and how to include them in a...

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Posted on 29 April 2024
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This is the fourth of several blog posts which focus on Document Variables. In the previous three: Placeholders: Introduction to Document Variables considered the extent of these placeholders and provided an introduction to this topic Placeholders: Title as a Document Variable looked at Title and ParentTitle Placeholders: Label, Status, Keywords and Synopsis explained these four most important meta data items and how to include them in a compile ...

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Posted on 1 April 2024
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This is the third of several blog posts which focus on Document Variables. Placeholders: Introduction to Document Variables considered the extent of these placeholders and provided an introduction to this topic. Placeholders: Title as a Document Variable looked at Title and ParentTitle. This blog post focuses on four items of metadata. Label Status Keywords Synopsis What is metadata? Metadata is 'data about data'. In the case of a novel, it's anything you might...

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Posted on 4 March 2024
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This series of blog posts focuses on Document Variables as introduced in the previous post. Reminder: What are document variables? For any document, there are a number of items of data (called metadata) which relate to that specific document - as opposed to any other document. Title: Document title and Parent title Next most important examples of metadata: Label, Status, Keywords and Synopsis Counts etc: LineCount, SubDocCount and DescendantCount, DocTarget and Revision Date/Time...

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Posted on 1 January 2024
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This post brings the Auto-numbering series to a close! To recap, there have been three posts to date: The simplest options, plus subnumbering and numbering by page, in Placeholders: Autonumbering Restarting numbering, using and restarting named auto-numbering streams, and compound placeholders Placeholders: More on autonumbering And, hierarchical autonumbering. Last but not least, we'll look at making placeholders more readable, and this leads us neatly to the need to consider to Document...

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