Showing posts with label revision is your friend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revision is your friend. Show all posts
27 September 2020

More on Christie and Wodehouse

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After posting about the possible influence of P. G. Wodehouse on Agatha Christie, I got a hold of Christie’s autobiography to see if it h...
04 July 2013

The Invention of Rewriting Revision?

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I’m looking at successive drafts of the Declaration of Independence while considering Craig Fehrman’s Boston Globe essay on revision in wr...
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04 November 2012

Remaking Batgirl in Li’l Gotham

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This week DC published a digital comic called Batman: Li’l Gotham , by Dustin Nguyen and co-writer Derek Fridolfs. It’s a Halloween tale abo...
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27 October 2012

Quandaries of Proofs and Historical Proof

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Roger Sutton of The Horn Book just wrote about Unspoken , by Henry Cole, a picture book clearly designed around the myth of quilt patter...
01 July 2011

Peeking in on Kirby and Lee

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HiLoBrow just published Rob Steibel’s analysis of an original page from Fantastic Four , #63, that preserves handwritten notes and revision...
25 May 2011

Making Lemonade Mouth a Little Sweeter

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I heard an interesting publishing story at last week’s SCBWI New England conference. Mark Peter Hughes originally published Lemonade Mouth...
27 March 2011

Revisting the First Boy Wonder’s Boyhood

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This cosplay in its purest form comes from the website of WSOC in Charlottesville. Evidently it’s Charlie, one of the station’s deejays, ar...
30 December 2009

Rocketeer Relaunched with “Rendering”

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The publication of The Rocketeer: The Complete Collection , by Dave Stevens, has provided a new example for the debate over recoloring old c...
28 December 2008

Not “Not Goofing Off!”

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Last December I posted this image , taken from an online preview of the first issue of the comic-book miniseries Teen Titans Year One . The ...
28 November 2008

The Synoptic Gospel

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Earlier this year I helped a friend polish the synopsis of his first novel for a literary agent. That got me thinking about synopses, a sing...
24 September 2008

Hey, Kids! What Day Is It?

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It's National Punctuation Day ! And in observance I'm bringing back Oz and Ends's PUNCTUATION WEEK , at least for a few days. To...
15 January 2008

Not Withholding Information

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I mustn't withhold a link to Janni Lee Simner's "Revision lessons." Among her hard-learned reminders: You know those writ...
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