Sunday, July 11, 2010

The Superfluous Snipper Award




The Winnner of the Superfluous Snipper Award is...


Caroline Brown! Congratulations, Caroline, and thanks to everyone who entered this fun contest. The superfluous words were:

vital
just
ever
the very
in order
sure
literally
each and




Some of you found more than my eyes caught; I applaud you for your editing expertise.

Do you enjoy finding and fixing your mistakes? We grow by editing our superfluous words, and tacky attitudes.

8 comments:

  1. I do enjoy editing, for the most part. It's like cleaning in that there's a concrete result where I can measure my work and see what I've done. :-)

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  2. I do enjoy editing and when I get critted chapter back I am amazed to see what one pair of eyes missed but another found. I think for each edit or mistake we learn. If not, why bother trying in the first place.

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  3. I too love having someone edit my work:)) We rarely see our own mistakes as well.

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  4. Jessica: I'm laughing at different perspectives here--I see cleaning as an unrewarding effort, since nothing ever STAYS clean, whereas in writing, you at least have a finished product sometime!

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  5. Hi Jen -

    Thanks for a fun contest. Congrats to Caroline!

    I'd rather edit other people's work than my own. Perhaps I need more craft books on self-editing. :)

    Blessings,
    Susan

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  6. That was a fun post!
    More! More!

    P.S. Wore my blood tangerine top in Nashville!

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  7. Fun, fun, fun contest. Love Jen's blog posts. Thanks for the scissors. Can't wait to use them. :)

    CB
    http://sunnebnkwrtr.blogspot.com

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