RE: flashpoint of the week: editors and writers egos

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com>]

FWIW, I took a writing course (from the Writers Digest School) once
where the instructor used two colors -- blue for editorial changes and
red for out-and-out errors.  I found out about this the hard way by
accidentally sending him a manuscripts with a few lines of text that had
faint spots due to what I'm guessing was a bad printer ribbon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- fiam -dot- net] 
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: flashpoint of the week: editors and writers egos


Cook, John wrote:

> .  One other thing. Red is for schoolteachers. Blue is for
> .  editors. You've 
> .  already learned why.
> .  
> .  HTH,
> .  
> .  Dick
> 
> I've been using green - it's non-threatening, yet stands outand it, 
> and doesn't get confused with any other blue or black ink comments.
> 
>

Green works. In traditional publishing, the _editor_ (person making 
suggestions to the author) uses a blue pencil and the _redactor_ (person

giving instructions to the compositor) uses green. But we're not in 
Kansas anymore and if green does the job for you, feel free.
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