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 PovichTag: editing
Don't all Air Pirates know how to fry?
Jack Lewis BaillotAs 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 WeisbergTag: bullshit journalism anonymity editing fairness objectivity fact-checking new-republic ron-suskind stephen-glass
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
Vladimir NabokovTag: editing publishing publish rewriting rewrite
There should be no crying in copyediting.
Carol Fisher SallerTag: crying editing copy-editing
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 KreitzerTag: writing editing grammar ya
I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet.
Stephen KingEditing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.
stephanie robertsTag: fiction editing fiction-writing
Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
Don RoffTag: humor writing procrastination random work funny panic editing efficiency procrastinate adhd procrastinating
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 ZooTag: humor love writing god sex relationships funny amazement writer editing transformation lover absence amazing commas sex-god transform word-junkies
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