“Only idiots need editors.”
Ouch. I’ve literally just heard someone say, “Only idiots need editors.” “Tell that to J.K. Rowling,” my husband responded. AtContinue Reading
Tag: Editing
Why You Should RUE: Resist the Urge to Explain
“…by never explaining her situations, by trusting her readers to keep up her, [the author] pays her readers the compliment of assuming them to be intelligent. And that’s a compliment any writer would do well to pass along.”
Why Good Words Go Missing
“My sentence was grammatically sound. So, why did my editor delete perfectly good words?”
For the Love of the Story 