Re: Troublesome Writers

[Damien Braniff <dbraniff -at- iss-dsp -dot- com>]

> One of the hardest lessons to learn when editing is to be detached.  When I
> first started writing my mentor told me the hardest thing I'd have to contend
> with is to resist the urge to change something, not because it's wrong but
> because that's not how I'd have written it.  I think (hope!) I've got that by
> now but we all slip :)  When I'm editing now I have two modes:

> strict editor mode - this is wrong (technically, reads wrong etc)

   suggestive editor mode - OK, I understand it but may be better as...

In the first instance it's to be changed. In the second, I can live with it (I
wouldn't have said it that way!) but have a look at this and leave it to them to
decide. Sometimes they think, yes that's better and change it, sometime not.

Damien Braniff
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