Linda Nagata talks extensively about dealing with editorial comments. I wanted to ruminate further, but felt it would be rude to blather in a public forum. This is my safe blather place ( Read more... )

Deborah Ross posted her thoughts on editing vs. critiquingOutside of a buying editor having final authority, I don't see any real difference between editing and critiquing. But I guess that depends on how one defines either of those ( Read more... )

While I was visiting asakiyume we had a small but excellent writing workshop. I came away all excited about what people had seen in my first chapter of a thing--the bad and the good. All during my travels I tinkered with that chapter, addressing issues that people saw, then I woke up the night before last and realized I have to scrap the entire thing except ( Read more... )

Debra Doyle offers editorial services.Yeah, a lot of people are doing that. Some of them may actually know how to edit, others (so I've been told) can't sell their own books, so they're turning their hand to others' work. That might be a legit way to approach dealing with the process by which literature reaches the reader; some have insight they ( Read more... )

My usual blog day at BVC is Sunday, but there's an ongoing series called "Ways to Trash Your Career," and entry is on the non-editing clauseWe writers all think our words are golden, and if a work takes off, isn't that proof? There is always the danger of becoming a one-book-wonder. No one sets out to be one. Bulwer-Lytton would be chagrined to ( Read more... )

Via burger_eater, Betsy Mitchell speaks up on what she rejected in 2009. She gets more specific in the comments.

The hope note is that indeed, new people do get read and published--in fact, burger-eater himself is evidence. His insanely fast-paced, very dark fantasy Child of Fire is a first. If you go back in his journal, you can track his progress, because he talked ( Read more... )

Well, I had my narrative voice conversation with the workshopper I mentioned in a previous post. Before we got to my response on the ms, the person (hereinafter referred to as Q so I don’t get my feet tangled up pronounal octopoids) read me a response from a Big Name Agency ( Read more... )