Why Writer's Hate Editors or...Kafkaesque

[3113]

Enjoy. I think it says it all

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[sr71plt]

I'm not sure why this is a reason writers should hate editors. This would have been a case where the editor was dead right. The cartoon story is a dime a dozen. The story as this indicates the editor asked for has become a literary classic. The editor of this cartoon took something from the slush file and made the author immortal. And the kicker is that it's the author who would be famous not the editor the author of this cartoon would owe the success to.

 

[3113]

I'm not sure why this is a reason writers should hate editors. This would have been a case where the editor was dead right. The cartoon story is a dime a dozen. The story as this indicates the editor asked for has become a literary classic. The editor of this cartoon took something from the slush file and made the author immortal. And the kicker is that it's the author who would be famous not the editor the author of this cartoon would owe the success to.

Oh, sr7, really. I know you're writer enough to know this is a joke and to get it...aren't you?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Oh, sr7, really. I know you're writer enough to know this is a joke and to get it...aren't you?

You're asking a lot of writers. We are famous for not getting the joke.

Except for the ones we ourselves make....

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, sr7, really. I know you're writer enough to know this is a joke and to get it...aren't you?

I get the joke. I just don't think you realized what the joke was from how you set it up. The punchline was that the writer should send the editor a check because the editor was right.

But I guess it could be read your way as a fairly typical author attitude irony--the author hating an editor's suggestions that make the story a literary classic rather than a same/same one of hundreds of story plotlines sitting on the reject pile.

 

[PayDay]

Except for the ones we ourselves make....

Speak for yourself