The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists, by Arthur Plotnik
“What kind of person makes a good editor? When hiring new staff, I look for such useful attributes as genius, charisma, adaptability, and disdain for high wages.” [p. 1]
“…self-serving, retentive, fastidious, fetishistic, and even some aesthetic and ethical types of compulsiveness have no place in mass communications under deadlines…” [p. 2]
“A polite name for hounding people is “nudging,” and systematic nudging is “following up”…virtually nothing happens when it is supposed to happen without well-timed reminders.” [p. 5]
“Is editing like processing fat into soap or packaging toilet tissue? Yes and no. Some editorial products do call to mind these commodities.” [p. 11]
About Victoria Janssen
Victoria Janssen [she, her] currently writes cozy space opera for
Kalikoi. The novella series A Place of Refuge begins with
Finding Refuge:
Telepathic warrior Talia Avi, genius engineer Miki Boudreaux, and augmented soldier Faigin Balfour fought the fascist Federated Colonies for ten years, following the charismatic dissenter Jon Churchill. Then Jon disappeared, Talia was thought dead, and Miki and Faigin struggled to take Jon’s place and stay alive. When the FC is unexpectedly upended, Talia is reunited with her friends and they are given sanctuary on the enigmatic planet Refuge. The trio of former guerillas strive to recover from lifetimes of trauma, build new lives on a planet with endless horizons, and forge tender new connections with each other.
Love you, too, Victoria. Down with dysfunctional compulsiveness!
Art Plotnik
“A polite name for hounding people is “nudging,” and systematic nudging is “following up”…virtually nothing happens when it is supposed to happen without well-timed reminders.”
Heh. That.
I swoon! *searches for sal volatile*