By Brendan O’Meara
With a hat tip to the writer and editor Glenn Stout, a great editing trick is this:
Change the font and the change the size of the font.
I typically compose in Times New Roman, but to change the “eye level,” to borrow a baseball term, I then edit in Comic Sans size 14.
I know, there’s all kinds of hate for Comic Sans, but let me tell you, I almost never miss a mistake.
Convert it back and ship your clean draft. Easy peasy.
This episode is sponsored by Scrivener, created by writers for writers.
In this conversation, Roy Peter Clark, author of Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser (Little, Brown), he says, “Every story is a workshop.”
What a great way to approach reading and writing. I love it.
Roy is the author of several books on writing including Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, Writing Short, Help! for Writers, and The Art of X-Ray Reading.
In this episode we talk about a deep dive he took on a 19-year-old college freshman’s brilliant story of a man washing the stain of blood from the sidewalk after a killing.
There’s lots of great stuff I know you’ll dig in this episode, so I’ll leave you to it.
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