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An interesting idea, secreting readers in a crowd of editors. It's disconcerting that the readers, finally out of the closet, would report being surprised at how thoughtful and professional editors are.
Now that I think about it, my experience with editors does bear out the idea that we have our moments of being intolerable. Pretty long moments sometimes.
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A lot of good points in the article, but as a writer who self-published his first book without the aid of an editor but had an editor for my second and third books... Well, if I could do it all over again I would wish to engage the help of an editor and wish I were able to work with an editor on a daily basis instead of the end of a long process.
But to get back to the topic at hand, I see any business as a constantly changing thing that no one can correctly steer 100% of the time, and while some were wishing that newspapers would stick to just news, the artist in me wishes they contained more poetry, short stories, novels, and other creative works like newspapers did when they were the monopoly of the media business.
Posted on October 16, 2004 5:30 PM
I fear that most of us don't have the skill to know good poetry and fiction when it slides over the transom. But the Web does open up options for just about anything, doesn't it.
Posted on October 17, 2004 9:56 PM