Authors may feel the relationship between themselves and their editors are contentious times. I’ve had only great experiences so far.<\/p>\n
For me, the time I spend with my editors is invigorating. We share our concerns about my work: word choices, punctuation errors, pacing on the page as well as whether a sentence or paragraph progresses the story. We discuss my ‘why’ verses their ‘concern’. Often I concede that what I meant<\/em> and what I wrote<\/em> are not in harmony. Then we work through the section, make adjustments to help the reader understand my meaning, and move on.<\/p>\n In the process we often become professional acquaintances who know and respect each other. Often, we become friends who share life experiences, send birthday cards, and stay in touch. It’s a win-win during a working time that could be stressful.<\/p>\n I see my editors are mentors; people who care about me, my writing and my success. I learn from their\u00a0 wisdom, make needed changes and still stand up for images or language I want\/need kept intact. Also, it’s understood that any and all mistakes that linger after<\/em> they assist me, are my own. (Wish I could blame someone else, but, as they say, the buck stops here!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authors may feel the relationship between themselves and their editors are contentious times. I’ve had only great experiences so far. For me, the time I spend with my editors is invigorating. We share our concerns about my work: word choices, punctuation errors, pacing on the page as well as whether a sentence or paragraph progresses the story. We discuss my ‘why’ verses their ‘concern’. Often I concede that what I meant and what I wrote are not in harmony. Then we work through the section, make adjustments to help the reader understand my meaning, and move on. In the process...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,13,124,67],"tags":[163,73,49],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-musings","category-writing","category-writing-process","tag-authors","tag-editors","tag-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}