Thursday, July 8, 2010

Today's Tip: Keep Track of the Details

As we all know, an essential part of writing sophistical, long-form stuff, be it in this heat or the rest of the year,  is sweating the small stuff.   We have heard of many different kinds of ordering systems for keeping details straight, but literary agent Rachelle Gardner has come up with a method that we found especially creative and appealing.  She suggests creating an Editorial Style Sheet -- never again will you forget whether your protagonist's eyes are blue or green, if its 5th Street or Fifth Street, and when to put an "e" in blond

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