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  • #editingchat 4/21/11

    I remembered! May the heavens open and the angels sing. I remembered to tell you guys we’re holding #editingchat!

    Today at noon Pacific Standard Time on Twitter. You can go to that link and follow the conversation even if you don’t have a Twitter account (although you need to be on Twitter to contribute). Every time Twitter tells you there’s a new tweet, just click on those words, and it’ll refresh your screen.

    That’s 1:00 pm Mountain Standard Time, 2:00 pm Central Standard Time, and 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. For one hour. I think we’re going to talk about writer’s block.

    Do you guys know the old Calvin & Hobbes cartoon about Calvin putting a big cube in the middle of his desk so he can’t work? It’s his Writer’s Block. He says, “I must be way ahead of my time.”

    Today at 12:00 pm PST. Look for the #editingchat hashtag. . .or else just me typing as fast as I can.

    UPDATE: We didn’t even get to writer’s block. We were too busy doing a Developmental Edit on an unwritten story based on a single sentence. It’s posted: #editingchat

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5 Responses to “#editingchat 4/21/11”

  1. Mark Williams said on April 21st, 2011 at 9:42 am

    For us dinosaurs still struggling to make sense of facebook, I hope you’ll be putting all this into a “real” document at some stage?

    Writer’s block? If I need a day off I take one off and feel guilty the rest of the week trying to catch up. I certainly don’t need to give it a name to excuse my idleness.
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    Victoria Reply:
    April 21st, 2011 at 9:44 am

    Bah. I don’t do Facegook, Mark. Twitter’s a different ballgame.

    I will archive it with the others later today, but you are welcome to follow that link I put up and read the conversation in real-time with the rest of us, if you like.

  2. Anagram Writing » Write for the Climax » Anagram Writing said on April 22nd, 2011 at 11:42 am

    [...] great day, at least when it came to a particular story I’m working on. I was participating in #Editingchat (the link takes you to the discussion) on Twitter, when Victoria Mixon said that she could talk to [...]

  3. February Grace said on April 25th, 2011 at 8:02 am

    So sorry I missed this, definitely hoping to catch it if you do it again this week! Even if reading Twitter makes my brain feel like it’s turning inside out (it’s an eyesight issue- Twitter chats literally make me dizzy.)

    My copy of your book arrived on Friday and I read the first 60 pages in one go before I had to stop (again, my limited eyesight that’s huge) I didn’t want to stop. I kept saying as I was reading, “Thank you for this wonderful font, thank you for this big gorgeous wonderful font..oooooh, Funny! Thank you for being funny!” I’m loving it and can’t wait to get back into it. You may not be on FB but I’ll be telling people there how much I’m enjoying the book. Thanks for it and for this amazing blog. So much to ponder, and you make it so enjoyable to think about.

    So many books on writing read like melba toast tastes and you kind of have to force it down and hope you don’t choke on it. Your book is so much better than that, reading it is a treat like apple pie with ice cream and caramel sauce and fresh coffee (caffeinated, highly caffeinated) with triple cream and whipped cream on top AND sprinkles.

    Yep. That’s totally what it’s like. Thank you.

    Gratefully,
    ~bru

    Victoria Reply:
    April 25th, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    What a lovely comment to start my Monday! Thank you, bru.

    Yes, we are doing #editingchat again this Thursday at noon PST. We had such fun last week demonstrating Developmental Editing from just one sentence maybe we’ll do that again. Or talk about writer’s block, like I promised last week and mooked on. :)




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