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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S22 Bonus – Favorite Moments

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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