I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.

Lynn Povich

Mots clés editing

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Don't all Air Pirates know how to fry?

Jack Lewis Baillot

Mots clés humor editing

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As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn't feel trustworthy. Sometimes it's a quote or incident that's too perfect —a feeling I always had when reading stories by Stephen Glass in the New Republic. Sometimes it's too many errors of fact, the overuse of anonymous sources, or signs that a reporter hasn't dealt fairly with people or evidence. And sometimes it's a combination of flaws that produces a ring of falsity, the whiff of a bad egg. There's no journalist who sets off my bullshit alarm like Ron Suskind.

Jacob Weisberg

Mots clés bullshit journalism anonymity editing fairness objectivity fact-checking new-republic ron-suskind stephen-glass

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I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Vladimir Nabokov

Mots clés editing publishing publish rewriting rewrite

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There should be no crying in copyediting.

Carol Fisher Saller

Mots clés crying editing copy-editing

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Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.

Laura Kreitzer

Mots clés writing editing grammar ya

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I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet.

Stephen King

Mots clés writing editing

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Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

stephanie roberts

Mots clés fiction editing fiction-writing

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Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Don Roff

Mots clés humor writing procrastination random work funny panic editing efficiency procrastinate adhd procrastinating

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Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.


Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Mots clés humor love writing god sex relationships funny amazement writer editing transformation lover absence amazing commas sex-god transform word-junkies

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