So much time and effort one puts into editing and so little thanks. Kinda like being an accountant in a firm. No one knows who is doing the numbers until the money stops flowing. Then everyone blames the accountant for all their troubles.
Cathy honey, I know the effort one puts into editing. I sincerely thank you for all that time you spent working on another story.
Oh, by the way, a heads up girl. I have had absolutely zero help writing Warrior Princess II. So far it looks like a blender of a dozen different writers from the psycho ward. I wrote myself into so many dead ends. It has made me realize all over again I'm NOT a writer. Remember the old time patch work quilts made from all the odds and ends of different material?
Hold that thought.
always,
Barb
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I've done some editing ...
My experience was a thankless task. When I edit, I make sure the spelling is correct for America, if the author is American. If the author is from the UK, I make it correct for there. Some American readers have an issue with that, still thinking that America is the center of the Universe.
Some sentence structure things get changed, but if the peculiarity is there to make the sentence seem foreign or alien, then I leave it.
I do not edit to compensate for a lack of talent as that is not within the perview of a good editor, IMHO. Happily, no one has asked me to edit recently.
I've had two or three editors, and the last one I used, left my work so marked up in Word, using features that I did not know, that I gave up on that story. I am entering a time, very soon, where I will have to engage an editor again, and the prospect paralyzes me. You know who you are, please be gentle with me.
Cathy, your editing work seems very good.
Gwen
You are more than welcome, Barbie
In truth, the joy I feel when what little I do helps a story look and read just a bit better is more than payment enough. When the story is a quality piece of work, it's just that much easier to add a few commas, re-spell a word here and there and restructure a paragraph there. Usually, with the quality of story you've given me to work with, that's all I really have to do.
Thank YOU for allowing me to work on your great stories. Your trust in my ability to not wreck them is very much appreciated.
The thanks really belong to the owner, the staff and volunteers, the authors and editors and all the great folks that make Top Shelf THE place to be on the internet. I accept your thanks, but only in the names of all those who make this place so great.
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.