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What an editor does
by Terry Edge at 13:25 on 21 January 2011

Very interesting article, also very readable:

http://tomdup.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/adventures-in-editing-part-i/

Terry

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Re: What an editor does
by saturday at 15:02 on 22 January 2011

Very interesting. I loved his description of a good editor as 'an attentive reader who is biased in favour of the author'.

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Re: What an editor does
by Account Closed at 19:51 on 22 January 2011

I like the idea of the training being to merely 'read your tits off'

Kind of like the training for being a writer, then?

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