I Have A Bone To Pick With Editors.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Okay!

I'm reading a Western that was made into a film back in 1968. The director and cast were major league Hollywood players.

But the book sux! It sux big time. Its filled with all the basic goofs new writers make. Instead of getting involved in the story my mind wanders or 'fixes' the writing as I read.

What in fuck was this book's editor thinking or doing when he let this crap go to print? It needs a major re-write.

 

[sr71plt]

Okay!

I'm reading a Western that was made into a film back in 1968. The director and cast were major league Hollywood players.

But the book sux! It sux big time. Its filled with all the basic goofs new writers make. Instead of getting involved in the story my mind wanders or 'fixes' the writing as I read.

What in fuck was this book's editor thinking or doing when he let this crap go to print? It needs a major re-write.

Yeah, right. A writer writes a lame book that a publisher is willing to publish as it is--and you blame the editors for it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I hold you personally responsible.

 

[TxRad]

Yeah, right. A writer writes a lame book that a publisher is willing to publish as it is--and you blame the editors for it.

And they made it into a film. Must be a really screwed up book don't ya think.

 

[bronzeage]

And they made it into a film. Must be a really screwed up book don't ya think.

He cried all the way to the bank.

 

[TxRad]

He cried all the way to the bank.

And a happy ending was had by all. Well except JBJ I guess. He's still trying to figure out what happened with all his perfect prose.

 

[bronzeage]

And a happy ending was had by all. Well except JBJ I guess. He's still trying to figure out what happened with all his perfect prose.

It was probably one of those editors who pat the writer on the back and say, "This is perfect. Don't change a thing."

 

[TxRad]

It was probably one of those editors who pat the writer on the back and say, "This is perfect. Don't change a thing."

You mean those actually exist! I thought that was an urban legend.

 

[bronzeage]

You mean those actually exist! I thought that was an urban legend.

A good editor, at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4

 

[sr71plt]

You mean those actually exist! I thought that was an urban legend.

Pat, pat, TxRad. Don't change a thing.

 

[TxRad]

Pat, pat, TxRad. Don't change a thing.

Yeah right.

My editor wears hobnail boots and carries a chair and a whip.

Hmmm, that may say more about me than her editing.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

And a happy ending was had by all. Well except JBJ I guess. He's still trying to figure out what happened with all his perfect prose.

If you have a decent tale you can write it with finger-paint and lose nothing.

 

[jomar]

A good editor, at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4

Good!

 

[bronzeage]

If you have a decent tale you can write it with finger-paint and lose nothing.

That only works if you are going to publish on a refrigerator door.

 

[TE999]

Okay!

I'm reading a Western that was made into a film back in 1968. The director and cast were major league Hollywood players.

But the book sux! It sux big time. Its filled with all the basic goofs new writers make. Instead of getting involved in the story my mind wanders or 'fixes' the writing as I read.

What in fuck was this book's editor thinking or doing when he let this crap go to print? It needs a major re-write.

Check the year when the book was published. It may very well have been 'written' after the movie was released to cash in on it's (presumed) popularity. It's probably the screenplay and script cobbled together by some ghost writer in a few days.

 

[The_Fool]

If you have a decent tale you can write it with finger-paint and lose nothing.

This is blurtable.

 

[litfan10]

If you have a decent tale you can write it with finger-paint and lose nothing.

Does this mean if you give a hundred monkeys finger paints one of them might turn into an editor for a major publisher!?!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Does this mean if you give a hundred monkeys finger paints one of them might turn into an editor for a major publisher!?!

I always thought they all worked there anyhow.

 

[litfan10]

I always thought they all worked there anyhow.

I always had more respect for monkeys than that!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Check the year when the book was published. It may very well have been 'written' after the movie was released to cash in on it's (presumed) popularity. It's probably the screenplay and script cobbled together by some ghost writer in a few days.

No such luck. Two of his novels were made into movies, both Westerns. But he wrote them first, and so far as I know, never saw the West in his life.

 

[bronzeage]

No such luck. Two of his novels were made into movies, both Westerns. But he wrote them first, and so far as I know, never saw the West in his life.

Makes you wonder how Arthur C. Clarke managed to write 2001: A Space Odyssey.

What was the novel and who is the much maligned author?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Makes you wonder how Arthur C. Clarke managed to write 2001: A Space Odyssey.

What was the novel and who is the much maligned author?

THE STALKING MOON by Theodore Olsen.

 

[bronzeage]

THE STALKING MOON by Theodore Olsen.

I wonder if Shakespeare ever went to Denmark or Verona.

 

[sr71plt]

I wonder if Shakespeare ever went to Denmark or Verona.

I don't recall seeing him in Famagusta.