Communication

Feedback is the product you want your editor to deliver, but what do you do when you don’t agree with it? As I mentioned in a previous post, I see writers and editors in private social media groups taking out their frustrations on one another. If you are venting online, you and your editor are […]

Writers in a private online group were recently posting stories about their bad experiences with editors. Several self-published fiction writers on the thread were surprised by the volume of edits they received. One freelancer was appalled that her magazine editor changed the tone of her article, which altered her message. A handful of educational writers […]

The best part of the sentence I love you is that it has a subject, verb and direct object. Clear. Simple. Eternal. As an editor, I am hard pressed to find fault with these three words as they are strung together. I love you is a potent one liner, but is it a perfect sentence? […]