Edited by William Justin Thirsk-Gaskill, Wednesday, 21 Sep 2011, 09:57
Those of you who have frequented this blog before now will know that it mainly features a novel entitled 'The Companion'.
Some of you may also have heard that I am editing this novel with a view to submitting the first three chapters to some-one in the world of publishing.
With this in mind, I would like to say a few words about OU blogs, and their relevance to editing.
An OU blog is searchable. I have numbered all the parts of my novel that I have published here, and that has enabled me to search for any given part. If a given word, character or place name becomes important, that can also be searched for. These features are very useful because it makes the material easier to work with than a set of individual Word documents.
I have had very valuable comments from readers of this blog, which I am carefully re-reading during the editing process. Some of them are stylistic. Some of them resolve individual typos. All are welcome.
Advantages of OU blog posts
Those of you who have frequented this blog before now will know that it mainly features a novel entitled 'The Companion'.
Some of you may also have heard that I am editing this novel with a view to submitting the first three chapters to some-one in the world of publishing.
With this in mind, I would like to say a few words about OU blogs, and their relevance to editing.
An OU blog is searchable. I have numbered all the parts of my novel that I have published here, and that has enabled me to search for any given part. If a given word, character or place name becomes important, that can also be searched for. These features are very useful because it makes the material easier to work with than a set of individual Word documents.
I have had very valuable comments from readers of this blog, which I am carefully re-reading during the editing process. Some of them are stylistic. Some of them resolve individual typos. All are welcome.