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Words to Ponder: Blaise Pascal (and contest winners)

June 21, 2015 by Deb 1 Comment

“I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

– Blaise Pascal

How efficiently Pascal describes the usefulness of an editor!

… makes me think about that Budgeting/Writing Pencil again. Happy first day of summer to the winners of the spring contest to win one! Thank you all for participating! I decided to randomly select more than one winner after all (just because!), and will be in touch with you shortly to send you your pencil. It’s interesting to see where people access the blog. The winners are:

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#1 = Dan (Canada)

#2 = Rona (USA)

#3 = Louise (Canada)

… plus honorable mention goes to Barbara, who so often comments!

Cheers and good editing to you,
Deb

P.S. The actual pencil is NOT the same size as in the picture. 🙂

Filed Under: FILM, Fun, INK, Inspiration Tagged With: editing, pm101, quotation

Comments

  1. Barbara says

    June 22, 2015 at 11:08 am

    It’s very true – editing takes much longer than the original draft, even if it’s only to clean up typos and grammar errors. I find both editing and writing completely satisfying, but editing my own stuff really difficult except when I’ve left a document for at least a month or more…working with a good editor who “gets it” is a true gift to any writer. And Deb – thanks for your kind words… as a blog writer myself I appreciate comments even if it’s a negative one. Happy summer!

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