Guest Post: Harold Underdown on Line Editing

Harold UnderdownBy Harold Underdown
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

Eileen Robinson and I have been teaching about revision for several years now through our partnership, Kid's Book Revisions.

Until recently, we hadn't taught about line-editing--it seemed too complicated, too messy, for a workshop approach--but we thinking we've figured out how to do it. I'd like to tell you why you should learn about line-editing, show what line-editing is and how to do it, give you a couple of exercises...