Jacqueline Lichtenberg on What Exactly is Editing
The talented and very insightful Jacqueline Lichtenberg is writing an irritatingly correct series of blogs posts on editing and how one as a professional writer needs to interface with it, at least in terms of the realities of what an editor deals with. Screamingly excellent food for thought and for myself a timely reminder, because I will probably be going through this very same 'getting edited' drill before the end of this year. The mindset she describes in this column is definitely one worth cultivating, at least if you are dealing with conventional mass market book publishers:
What Exactly is Editing, part 3
What Exactly is Editing, part 3