Great advice here! I only recently started my journey as an editor, and I have learned a lot in quite a short amount of time. As someone with a tendency for wordy sentences, it can be a struggle some days. Thanks for the advice, as if I needed any more reasons to read more in the evenings!
I need to take more of my own advice on this front, for certain! Glad to be of encouragement, and thanks for returning the favor. As far as wordiness, I think some folks pull off longwinded-yet-readable. Your prose, by the time you publish it anyway, always seems to flow well. My editor self and author self have negotiated a deal where the longer my sentences are, the shorter the words I'm allowed to use.
Great advice here! I only recently started my journey as an editor, and I have learned a lot in quite a short amount of time. As someone with a tendency for wordy sentences, it can be a struggle some days. Thanks for the advice, as if I needed any more reasons to read more in the evenings!
I need to take more of my own advice on this front, for certain! Glad to be of encouragement, and thanks for returning the favor. As far as wordiness, I think some folks pull off longwinded-yet-readable. Your prose, by the time you publish it anyway, always seems to flow well. My editor self and author self have negotiated a deal where the longer my sentences are, the shorter the words I'm allowed to use.
Dang, that’s really smart! A good deal, indeed. I ought to try to do the same.