Comments on: Books, Publishing, and the Zealous Editor http://www.cuckleburr.com/books-publishing-and-the-zealous-editor Created by writers, for writers. Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:19:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Aries http://www.cuckleburr.com/books-publishing-and-the-zealous-editor/comment-page-1#comment-698 Aries Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:07:16 +0000 http://www.cuckleburr.com/?p=1048#comment-698 Even though I have no qualms about clearing up unintentional ambiguities and contradictions, I'd probably shoot my editor if he told me to change someones name just because it had the word "Nut" in it, or have a British character speak American. To me, the editors job is to point out flat-out bad writing and point out things that contribute nothing to the characters or the story. I'll accept some suggestions on how to alter some parts, but in the end, I'm the author, and I follow my rules. XD One bit of critique I got on a short piece I wrote was "I can't tell if the protagonist is a man or a woman, might want to clear that up.", and all I said was "Even though it got lampshaded twice and one person commented on the ambiguous gender?". People don't read anymore... PS: If I was that guy, I would've really set the editor off and told him "Its either Nutsworth, or Gaylord.", I'd probably have to find a new editor but the look on their face would've been well worth it. Even though I have no qualms about clearing up unintentional ambiguities and contradictions, I’d probably shoot my editor if he told me to change someones name just because it had the word “Nut” in it, or have a British character speak American. To me, the editors job is to point out flat-out bad writing and point out things that contribute nothing to the characters or the story. I’ll accept some suggestions on how to alter some parts, but in the end, I’m the author, and I follow my rules. XD

One bit of critique I got on a short piece I wrote was “I can’t tell if the protagonist is a man or a woman, might want to clear that up.”, and all I said was “Even though it got lampshaded twice and one person commented on the ambiguous gender?”. People don’t read anymore…

PS: If I was that guy, I would’ve really set the editor off and told him “Its either Nutsworth, or Gaylord.”, I’d probably have to find a new editor but the look on their face would’ve been well worth it.

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