red-pencil

When the previous government proposed cuts to the permanent collection of the British Library — the nearest thing we have to a national memory — it became clear how little this notion had registered with red-pencil types.

A Debate Over Books and Sequestered Nooks Sam Leith 2011

The tiny voice in her head made the necessary red-pencil correction.

FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

The tiny voice in her head made the necessary red-pencil correction.

FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

I wouldn't just red-pencil stuff, I'd get a big paintbrush and paint whole chapters red.

Bloat Walter Jon Williams 2009

I wouldn't just red-pencil stuff, I'd get a big paintbrush and paint whole chapters red.

Archive 2009-01-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

How would the Declaration of Independence, for instance, read if he'd been able to red-pencil it before the Founding Fathers could post it?

Scott Carter: Phil Cooney's Little Red Pencil 2008

Bed of Nails was an improvement over Death's Door, even if I did want to start red-pencil editing the broad strokes of subculture and topic description: in the Slade tradition of stylizing the villain while trying to hide the villain's identity, one of the villains is "the Goth".

Fri-Sun: ClareFader/shop/jam/party/Nancy Baker/Alex Maness/film badger 2004

He handed a map, with red-pencil and blue-pencil markings, along to von Schlichten.

Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

He handed a map, with red-pencil and blue-pencil markings, along to von Schlichten.

Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

He handed a map, with red-pencil and blue-pencil markings, along to von Schlichten.

Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934