Rebecca Straple Editing Services

06/22/2014

"The possible world of narrative is the only universe in which we can be absolutely certain about something, and it gives us a very strong sense of truth." - Umberto Eco on the greatest maps of imaginary places

"Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself." Celebrated Italian novelist,

06/20/2014

Haven't finished a book since college? Between work, family, and social lives, trying to find time to read can be more effort than relaxing hobby...

06/18/2014

One of the most beautiful sentences in English literature?

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

06/18/2014

Happy 100th Birthday, Dubliners!

06/17/2014

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06/16/2014

Insightful reflections on editing by a writer... The third editor she describes is the type I try to be--the type I think we should all try to be.

I have a touch of OCD, not debilitating, just annoying. One of the milder rules it makes for my life is the necessity to finish one book before I'm 'allowed' to

06/15/2014

Handy advice for those of us who write or edit and have friends that want our opinions from Writer's Digest :

When friends know that we’re writers, they sometimes ask us to read and critique their works-in-progress. Handling these requests can be awkward. As friends, we want to help; as writers, we want to protect our own writing time. If we offer professional critiquing services, as many of us do, we also…

06/14/2014

Now I need to find and buy all of these...

A visual voyage there and back again. Writing about the allure of fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien famously asserted that there is no such thing a

06/14/2014

From a great writer and woman:

"­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting." In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 rules of writing originally published

08/27/2013

If you read one thing today, make it Michael Lewis on writing, money, and the necessary self-delusion of creativity: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/26/michael-lewis-on-writing

08/26/2013

14 writers offer writing advice from--and on--their own hands...a strangely meta offering from Quora.com

http://betweenletters.quora.com/14-Writers-Handwrite-Their-Writing-Advice-on-Their-Hands

08/25/2013

Sorry for the radio silence, everybody, but I've been moving! RS Editing is now in Kalamazoo, MI... so if you know any students or writers at the bajillion universities located in or around Kalamazoo who need an editor, pass them on to me!