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Over at Random House's Suvudu blog, Del Rey Editor-in-Chief Betsy Mitchell has posted a great piece on why smart writers shouldn't argue with their editors when asked to make changes.
Be prepared to familiarize yourselves with the awesome phrase: "The ego has landed".
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Various & Sundry, 7/10/09
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9 comments:
Very insightful. Thanks for sharing the link. :)
Leggo my ego!
Ok, fess up. Who's the ego? You don't have to post it, just send it to the same email where you keep sending my rejections :-)
I second Gawain's comment. You know the address. ;)
Listen to an editor? What does a publishing industry professional know about about writing that I, an amateur, don't? Nothing, that's what.
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Great article. Thanks for sharing.
My years as a tech writer wiped out any writer ego I possessed. My "editors" have always been the experts on the subject matter. I'd assume my fiction editor is also the expert on the subject of whipping a book into shape.
Now, critters are another matter. They are not experts, and I am free to pick and choose suggestions.
That should be required reading for all writers.
Well, if smart writers rewrite, I must be a frakkin' genius, based on the size of rewrites I just got back from my editor...;-)
erp.
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