Editing: One Of My Superpowers
Editing is one of my superpowers. It’s not as flashy as scaling skyscrapers or similar, but it does come in handy.
Editing is one of my superpowers. It’s not as flashy as scaling skyscrapers or similar, but it does come in handy.
Have you dreamed about recording a parent’s story? Or about writing your family’s history, and the path it took over the decades—now, while your grandparents can still tell you what they know? How about documenting the history of a company you built up from nothing, or recording the life of a long-beloved family home? This is where a personal historian comes in.
Darien Gee is a Big Island writing dynamo, and acquaintance, whose new novel Friendship Bread (Ballantine Books/Random House) comes out April 5, 2011.
“America Writes Home” is a website with a wonderful collection of some existing pre-1920s letters, giving a flavor of that time before iPhones and email.
My favorite is the part about the writer who put up a slideshow on his Facebook page. It showed famous people reading his novel.
This is a funny, timely, small-town story that came in Christopher Kimball’s email today.