Writing can be a blast. Usually, I write in bursts, as the ideas come to me; so I skip among chapters, riding a wave of enthusiasm, risking a wipeout when the inspiration curls and crashes. It’s a thrilling ride.

It makes for rough, but emotionally engaged, text. Because of the “rough” part, it needs editing. Yet every time I sit down to the task, I’m nervous—taking such a cerebral approach to an artistic endeavor is bound to cut away some of the initial excitement, right? Those spur-of-the-moment passages lose their potency as they’re filtered again and again through my left brain.

That’s how I feel. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Sometimes, editing can be cool.

 

 

That is so awesome I can’t even tell you. And before someone worked their editing magic, it did not exist.

I am…so inspired.

And I’m off to make some waves.

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2 Responses to “The LOST Art of Editing”

  1. 8:45 pm, 19 November, 2008 р.
    Carlin Comm says:

    Hey Chris
    Welcome to my world :)
    Every time I come back from a shoot, and see my raw footage, or raw photos, its that same range of emotions, its exciting, because you know its going to be awesome when its done, but its nerve racking, because you hate to cut something up, that’s… alive. Sure, sometimes you see something that just has to be cut. Then it becomes a slasher movie, so many cuts, its hard to recognize what it was before. Slowly, you lay the knife down, wipe off your hands, pull back, look around, and then move things around. The real magic, like your video clip (very cool!) is when something new comes out, that didn’t exist before. It comes alive, its… magic.

    Hmmm that was kind of graphic. Sorry, feel free to delete it :) I think I’ll go back to some more editing now :)

    Then again, I kind of liked it… think I’ll go post this on my blog :)

    @carlincomm
    http://twitter.com/carlincomm

  2. 8:55 pm, 19 November, 2008 р.
    mousewords says:

    No way I’d delete that! Graphic, yes; but so cool to hear your insight. Thank you! :-)

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