To: HiJinx
...but that's why good writers need good editors!!!
Warning: All posts here are unedited first drafts!
I'm assuming you're applying the "good" adjective to yours truly. I certainly hope so 'cause I really need that today! (After jumping through hoops and rewriting the book proposal three times because of editor switches -- and "shifts in our objective" stuff, I just got a rejection letter. The writing project was to have been a junior high textbook-style book. Granted, I know that I'm now in a bit of a pity party because of that rejection, but let's just say I now have a better understanding of how they're dumbing down the stuff intended for school-age children.)
There's also the part of me that wonders if I might have been doomed from the start. My initial contact with the publisher was about a series of books that are collections of speeches made by "great" politicians along with some commentary-style introductions to the speeches. While talking with the acquisitions editor on the phone, I asked if they'd assigned anyone to do "the Reagan book yet; I'd love to do that one." Her reply: "Why would we ever want to do a book about him?"
Bottom line: I just did a whole boatload of writing that I now know was for no pay!!!
Okay: Pity party over.
175 posted on
06/18/2003 3:49:01 PM PDT by
Fawnn
(I think therefore I'm halfway there....)
To: Fawnn
I just looked at your Profile Page. A big wow !
I can make great peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and boil water. Oh and hamburgers. Survival food. LOL
You are amazing Fawnn !
Wild Thing
191 posted on
06/18/2003 4:33:56 PM PDT by
Wild Thing
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