The 'dark side' of editing?
It's one thing to standardise spelling to local norms, it's quite another to edit out the writer's ‘voice’. Is the routine editing of fiction into American English for the US market the 'dark side' of editing?
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May
2017
26
Apr
2017
The best editing job I (didn't) do
Some of his word choices were so odd I was totally flummoxed as what actual word should be used....yet strangely, the piece flowed...
28
Feb
2017
Punctuation: it's black and white
Lots of websites poke fun at bad grammar. Funny yes, but I also suffer a twinge of guilt laughing at someone else's expense. So, it was refreshing to come across a ‘grammar’ story with a feel-good vibe. A story where the loser was petty bureaucracy and the underdog triumphed.
18
Jan
2017
If you can’t go easy on the adjectives, know the rules
If I didn’t have the photo, and wanted to describe my cat, I would say he is a large, fluffy, silver-tabby cat, and by ordering the adjectives as I have, I have unconsciously followed the grammatical rule as to the order of adjectives.
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