The edit is when the author reads his or her story or essay out loud to a group of people and they critique it verbally rather than with a red pen on paper. Being able to hear emotion and comprehend the piece is a major part of getting your point across. If you can’t understand the piece without reading the words on paper, then you aren’t getting your point across well enough. The editing process is an endless loop of improvements. With one piece at a time, the group analyzes every part of it and in the end, it could be completely rewritten and scratched. Then, there is the addition of the musical scores and effects and those editions need to be edited as well before the final product is released.
Framing is when you take your story that has many different tangents or sub topics and tie it back to that big over arching topic. It’s important to tie everything together because if not it will just seem like an ongoing stream of dead-end topics. With framing, the story has purpose. Signposting is the act of staying on task and on topic. It reminds us to not stray with random tangents or long boring segments within our story.