(08-18-2014, 03:05 PM)Redrum link Wrote:...have professed love for their editors and credit them publicly. It might be just the form, fiction novels being a different creature than magazine or newspaper or website. Every editor I wrote for probably made me better. Given what they were working with, how could they not? The only bad editor I worked for was a Stanford Daily editor who had the story of a Faculty Senate meeting already written in his mind. When I returned from the Senate bore-fest he upbraided me for being too uninformed to see what was really going on and how meaningful and insidious it all was. So he just took the story I wrote, scanned it, and then wrote his version.
He might well have been right about me, but he or someone sent me out to cover what I saw, and I really didn't grasp how his version--written in the old Daily building-- improved things not in evidence at the event.
(08-18-2014, 03:05 PM)Redrum link Wrote:...have professed love for their editors and credit them publicly. It might be just the form, fiction novels being a different creature than magazine or newspaper or website. Every editor I wrote for probably made me better. Given what they were working with, how could they not? The only bad editor I worked for was a Stanford Daily editor who had the story of a Faculty Senate meeting already written in his mind. When I returned from the Senate bore-fest he upbraided me for being too uninformed to see what was really going on and how meaningful and insidious it all was. So he just took the story I wrote, scanned it, and then wrote his version.
He might well have been right about me, but he or someone sent me out to cover what I saw, and I really didn't grasp how his version--written in the old Daily building-- improved things not in evidence at the event.
