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lauraanne_gilman) wrote2006-08-12 03:02 pm
lauraanne_gilman) wrote2006-08-12 03:02 pm
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inside of me there's still an editor screaming to get out...
Am currently doing a freelance line-edit for a Major Publisher. It's a light job, not too bad -- the author has a good grasp of grammer, punctuation, all the other things that can make a line edit hell, the characters are solid, and the storyline's pretty sweet.
But as I'm working, the back of my mind is growling things like "they should have tried A before assuming that" and "why didn't the author bring D into play?" and "oh christ, that's SftSoP" (stupid for the sake of plot). And I wish to hell they'd hired me to run this manuscript through a developmental edit, too, because whoever was in-house missed things that could have taken this from 'sweet' to 'wow.'
And it frustrates me so....
(and makes me thankful for my editor, who is currently killing red ink over my manuscript, pointing out all my slops and slips and missed opportunities)
But as I'm working, the back of my mind is growling things like "they should have tried A before assuming that" and "why didn't the author bring D into play?" and "oh christ, that's SftSoP" (stupid for the sake of plot). And I wish to hell they'd hired me to run this manuscript through a developmental edit, too, because whoever was in-house missed things that could have taken this from 'sweet' to 'wow.'
And it frustrates me so....
(and makes me thankful for my editor, who is currently killing red ink over my manuscript, pointing out all my slops and slips and missed opportunities)