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 and feeling disconnected from the one professional they rely on to care the most. Several self-published fiction writers on the thread were surprised by the volume of edits they received from their editors. One freelancer was appalled that her […]

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? […]