The best books on grammar, unpacking line edits, and getting support as a memoir writer and how it is essential to success.
This is our third video teaching with Flight Schooler and “most involved paid subscriber” Laurel Anderson. To get the most from today’s post, I suggest you go back to the last post and listen to Laurel read her work. This will help contextualize the two sections of feedback I provide on the recording.
In this teaching, we discuss grammar programs and books. The links and titles mentioned in the video are in the resources section below.
Next, I discussed the pages with my line edits and what they mean, which is often “not much” because this art form is so subjective. Bottom line: For this part of our conversation, I pre-read Laurel’s writing, made edits as I went, and then scanned and shared the pages on screen. This technique is one I use for the more advanced critiques. As I wrote yesterday, a lot of teachers out there like to pre-read. And I like doing it too, b…
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