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Beat Marking: What Prose Editors Can Learn from Theater and Scripts

By Phoebe Whittington @PhoebeW

November 10, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Beat Marking: What Prose Editors Can Learn from Theater and Scripts

There is no singular right or wrong way to approach editing, which is why there is immense creativity and personalized approaches. It also means that editors can pull inspiration from a wide variety of sources and mediums. I’d like to draw attention to theater and scripts as a powerful source for improving your editing skills with plot, characterization, and dialogue.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: alternate mediums, beat marking, beats, book editing, character development, developmental editing, dialogue, drama, Editing, editing tips, fiction, movies, narrative structure, pacing, plot, prose, script analysis, scripts, theater, TV

How to Guide an Author to Read Poetry to Improve their Prose

By Georg Sperle @georgsperle

March 10, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How to Guide an Author to Read Poetry to Improve their Prose

In the developmental editing process, you might notice an author relying on similar images and words that are repeated every so often throughout the manuscript. As editors, we can facilitate and expand the growth of our authors’ prose through poetry to inspire fresh language and images. By encouraging the author to read poetry for specific craft skills and ideas, they can translate what the poets are doing to their prose writing, and add more diverse elements to their style.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: developmental editing, Editing, fiction, imagery, images, Language, metaphors, poetry, prose, rhythm, sonics, surprise, syntax, words

Willa Schneberg Guest Poet Post: “From the Enchanted Tower to Publishing’s Rutted Road”

By Ooligan Press

February 7, 2013 by OoliganPress 1 Comment

Every Thursday, Ooligan Press invites a poet whose work is included in Alive at the Center, our forthcoming anthology of poetry from Pacific Northwest writers, to blog for us. This week, we are pleased to feature Willa Schneberg, a poet from Portland, OR. Please enjoy her post!   From the Enchanted Tower to Publishing’s Rutted Road Almost […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: A Good Time To Die, Alice James, Alive at the Center, Alive at the Center: Featured Poet, Art, Box Poems, Box Turtle Press, Cambodia, family, flash fiction, Kauai, New York, Oregon, poetry, Portland, prose, publishing, publishing a manuscript, Rending The Garment, the killing fields, Willa Schneberg

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