editing
S45 Bonus – Being an Author Editors Want to Work With
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer. – Zadie Smith
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S45E7 – Questions for the Author/Editor Interview
Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each other intuitively. – Sahara Sanders
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S45E5 – Style Guides for Editing
For the relationship to work, the writer and editor must respect each other’s expertise and passion. – Rebecca Wenrich Wheeler
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S45E4 – The Job of a Proofreader
It’s hard to take someone seriously when they leave a note saying ‘your ugly.’ My ugly what? The idiot didn’t even know the difference between your and you’re. – Cara Lynn Shultz
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S45E3 – The Job of a Line Editor
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. – Doris Lessing
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S45E2 – The Job of a Developmental Editor
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ‘How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?’ and avoid ‘How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?’ – James Thurber
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S45E1 – Becoming an Editor
Editors have to be vicious. They’re working for the reader, not the writer. – Brendan Wolfe
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S40E2 – Finding Motivation to Edit
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. – Chuck Klosterman
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