Several months ago, I was working on the next in a series of articles for Texas Lawyer.
I had decided to try and write a "how to" article about
editing.
This, of course, was a mistake, because Murphy's law holds
that an article on editing will take longer to edit than any
article I've ever done.
But now I'm truly in the big time because the article is
being carried in both the Texas Lawyer and the National Law Journal.
(This, of course, is in addition to the strong freshman year I'm having as the big man
for the Delaware State Hornets. Although they grossly
exaggerate my height by listing me at 6' 10").
So, I've got that going for me.
Which is
nice.
Basically the article is a list of techniques, many suggested by
you readers, to make anyone a better editor. Most of the tricks are
designed to make you slow down and think critically about what you
actually put on the page rather than just breezing past what you
thought you said.
