Beginning Copyediting for Fiction | Beginning Line Editing for Fiction | DE 1 - 6: Developmental Editing for Fiction
Avoiding “Here’s How I Would Write it” as an Editor
Have you used the “here’s how I would write it” editorial query? In making editorial suggestions, editors sometimes drift into “here’s how I would write it” territory, which is something I discourage. Authors don’t care what you would have done. They want to learn what they can do that will make their manuscript better. What…
