EditorWriter.org » From the Writer’s Point of View http://editorwriter.org For freelance editors and, yes, writers. Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:53:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Writers: How To Handle Edits http://editorwriter.org/2009/from-the-writers-point-of-view/writers-how-to-handle-edits/ http://editorwriter.org/2009/from-the-writers-point-of-view/writers-how-to-handle-edits/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:00:11 +0000 the writer http://editorwriter.org/?p=155 As a writer, you are going to be edited. That is a simple fact. Learning how to deal with it is part of the business. It can help to remember that you shouldn’t take it personally. Editors edit for a variety of reasons including: to match the tone of the publication, to shorten a piece, or to suit their own personal preference. It doesn’t always mean you have done something wrong.

If you are going to succeed as a writer you have to get used to people changing your words. It’s part of the package. This is often hard at the beginning of your career, but as time goes on it gets much easier.

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Who said, “I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and good so that God will not make me one”?

 

Answer: Mark Twain

]]> http://editorwriter.org/2009/from-the-writers-point-of-view/quick-quote/feed/ 0 Editors Keep Us Writers From Looking Like Idiots http://editorwriter.org/2009/from-the-writers-point-of-view/editors-keep-us-writers-from-looking-like-idiots/ http://editorwriter.org/2009/from-the-writers-point-of-view/editors-keep-us-writers-from-looking-like-idiots/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:38:47 +0000 Yolander Prinzel http://editorwriter.org/?p=98 erase_eraser_mistake_262019_lI’m not going to lie to you, I can get frustrated with the changes editors make to my work. Sometimes, I get so lost in my own thoughts that I don’t realize my work doesn’t make sense to people who reside outside of my head. In reality, we writers need to be grateful to editors who are able to bridge the gap between the writer’s intention and the readers understanding.

I’m also grateful to those editors who teach me all these cute little grammar things that I had no idea even existed. In doing so they save me from a ton of grief down the road. As much as I hate to be confronted about my mistakes, this confrontation ensures that I will never, ever make that mistake again.

Of course, I’ve got a ton of bad writing habits that need correcting–and I’d happily correct them myself if I knew what they were…but I don’t. Which is why editors were created. To know. Of course, they have to forsake their personalities for that knowledge, but they feel it is a worthy sacrifice.

Kidding editors….kidding….

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