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Lesson 19
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Jacqueline’s perfect wordsmithing
What I learned doing this assignment – I found 23 errors or words I re-wrote or improved upon and found the reading backwards trick really useful.
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SU Pro Rewrite Class Lesson #19: Wordsmithing to Perfection! 8/11/23
Connie’s wordsmithing lesson #19
What I learned doing this new approach to Wordsmithing, especially the second run working from the final scene to the first scene is even if it feels like the 900<sup>th</sup> time I’ve been over this project, it can always benefit from yet another pass and from a new perspective making it more appealing and more marketable!
I used Final Draft’s read aloud tool on the first part of the assignment and lost track of how many description lines I ramped up and tightened. I did this while listening for repeated words, missing words. Incorrect punctuation, etc. I cut the total page count by one page. I also found a couple of misspelled words.
On the second part of the wordsmithing assignment where we did a pass from the final scene to the first, I found 20 errors which was surprising.
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SUBJECT: Monica’s Perfect Wordsmithing
What I learned doing this assignment is the value of working through the draft backwards. I’ve resisted that exercise before but did it this time.
In previous drafts, I’ve had FINAL DRAFT read it to me. This time I’ve went through it backwards. And was able to tighten up this draft significantly. Removed more pronouns, “and’s”, re-tooled some of the dialogue.
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