A one-minute video exhibition of the unusual editing tools the crafty editor must employ.
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I know it’s a lotta work, but you need to do more video.
What about some examples of each? Create a robust article based on the teases in the video.
Never use the blow gun if you have hiccups.
Hey Joel, thanks. I do like to do the videos, though it can take some time. But it puts me in a different kind of creative challenge other than writing, and that’s a pleasure. Funny you mention it, but I was toying with doing some posts on what a developmental edit as contrasted with a line edit is, but I wasn’t sure who would care.
I’ll keep your advice on the blowgun/hiccough association. If you noticed in the video, I originally put the second dart in wrong (barb-side toward me), which would have been a prickly inhalation indeed.
Did you see Seth’s post about the types of editing?
Writers should care about them. I see writers asking about “finding an editor” all the time (I send them here, of course) but many seem befuddled about which type of editor they mean.
I personally love developmental or structural editing. Less exuberant about line editing.
Your videos always combine humor and a point well made, Tom. You should make more of them. Including at least one in a carwash. Carwash videos are an under-explored means of teaching; to knowledge, only Joel here has attempted them.
*My gosh–you two could have a teaching conversation about developmental edits and line edits–with Tom in a carwash in Watsonville and Joel in a carwash in Wisconsin. What’s so great about the genre (besides those big spinning brushy things) is that it compels brevity…
Video conference inside carwashes. About editing.
We could really clean up with that.
By the hoary hand of Hoggath, do I remember that there was a tribal car wash video in days of yore? Verily, they are things of beauty and moment. And suds. A slice-in-time car scrubby simulcast does sound novel. (A novel that needs some editing, but don’t they all?)
Though we might could pull something off the week of March 17th-20th if y’all haven’t fled the country.
“How a Mini Cooper in a car wash is like all the forms of editing and why you shouldn’t attempt this without professional training”
I truly hope you two chaps make this happen.
Btw, I write this comment on my phone & the autocorrect rendered it thus:
“I truly hope you two chaos make this happen.”
It’s a sign, guys. It’s a sign.
“We Two Chaos”
We’d be like the dorky white version of Milli Vanilli.