Re: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow

Subject: Re: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow
From: "Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:04:28 -0400

On 7/12/07, Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- sun -dot- com> wrote:
> ...
> One of the best compliments I ever got on my
> editing was years ago when I worked for an academic
> publisher. Most of our authors were primarily
> academics rather than writers. I'd worked hard
> turning a very tedious and messy journal submission
> into a decent read. When the author called me back
> with a few small corrections to the galley proofs,
> he said cheerfully "Wow, now that I see it typeset,
> this really reads much better" !!!
>
> At first I was annoyed that all my hard work was
> being ignored but then I realized that it was a
> compliment if the author himself couldn't tell
> where my edits were.

Are you always so annoyingly positive?

;-)

This gets the glass-is-half-full award of the week!

I'm still annoyed just having -read- it :) (though I do see your point).

One very nice guy I used to work with would say in meetings "Then
we'll send the document to Susan and she'll Pretty It Up." Gah.
*That's* a good phrase for editing. NOT! Fortunately I actually enjoy
what I've heard called 'font fondling' so I didn't take it to hard,
but still...

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References:
RE: How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow: From: Lauren
RE: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow: From: Sandra Carden, Carden Works, LLC
Re: Retaining author's voice, was How to Use English Punctuation Correctly - wikiHow: From: Janice Gelb

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