Archive for Editing
From a 1997 novel: She puts away her notebook. [10 sentences elided here—about half a page. No mention of her notebook anywhere in here.] [Character name] puts away her notebook. [Yes, I understand that it would be possible to construct a rationale for why this made sense or was a clever hint toward something or […]
The long-planned official blog post about the editorial style guide that I own/maintain at work has finally gone live, as...
I don't think I've had a dream about editing before. Kind of funny that I should have one while I'm...
Sometime in the past year or two, I was thinking about anthologies I'd like to edit, and I came up...
Just saw this in AT&T's Wireless Terms of Service for California customers: You are not liable for charges you did...
I just wrote the following to Project Gutenberg: I just encountered an interesting possible problem in your edition of Northanger...
A couple of weeks ago, I read a particularly long run of submissions with particularly unfortunate anti-woman aspects. All sorts...
Lately, we've been receiving what seems like a lot of submissions from authors who aren't following our submission procedure, one...
For those who haven't heard, the Hugo award for Best Editor has undergone a change. For quite some time, the...
Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent...
Belated happy Father's Day to all y'all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day. My day was okay. Slow...
Say you're a writer, and you want to submit to a magazine. Say you've actually read their submission guidelines, but there was something in them that you think the editors can't possibly have meant.