{"id":2330,"date":"2018-08-24T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Editors-take-note"},"modified":"2018-08-24T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T18:26:08","slug":"editors-take-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/08\/24\/editors-take-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors, take note."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>Editors, take note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember a particular amateur editor who didn&#8217;t know English language nearly as well as she thought she did. I had to fight her in order to retain my style and voice in a short story I submitted to an anthology (and swore never again to participate in any project she was a part of). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like V.S. Naipaul, I studied English language at university, so I was able to explain why some of her edits were incorrect; but a lot of it came down to &#8220;this is in my voice; don&#8217;t edit it so that it&#8217;s in yours&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have worked with a lot of editors, and the true professionals help me to bring the best out of my writing. They only suggest changes when things are unclear, misleading, or incorrect. I was an editor myself at one time, and it&#8217;s one of those professions in which, if you do your job well, nobody notices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Alexander M Zoltai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>V.S. Naipaul Writes an Enraged Letter to His Publisher After a Copy-Editor Revises His Book, A Turn in the South<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/08\/v-s-naipaul-writes-enraged-letter-publisher-copy-editor-revises-book-turn-south.html<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Editors, take note.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/08\/24\/editors-take-note\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}