Feeling foolish, but grateful
Apr. 23rd, 2003 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowHello and thank you to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
searose. She did a lovely beta for me, improving the story muchly. It's the first time I've had work beta'd, and professional editor or not, it's always a scary feeling to send your work to be looked at. My work work is journalistic. It's tight and to the point, and rarely verve-filled, and I tend to run amok in fiction.
A good editor is almost more valuable than a good writer. Writer's are flamboyant and enthusiastic, spreading their words and sounds and visions across the page, and editors reign them in, rope them down, and cut, cut, cut and change until the final product is so much more worthy than the original. Editors know how to put the caesura in, to eliminate the flab, to curve and shape, and caress in a way that the writer simply can't.
So, started off the morning with revisions and then discovered that none of my links worked because I didn't inlcude http://. Bangs head against desk repeatedly. They are now fixed. HTML is a little precise for me. If I forget a /, I'm screwed. I need coding that has a margin of error! Guess that doesn't really track with the whole tech thing though. The next thing I have to figure out is how to install comments for a blog. That may be the death of my techy leanings. I just don't get it.
searose. She did a lovely beta for me, improving the story muchly. It's the first time I've had work beta'd, and professional editor or not, it's always a scary feeling to send your work to be looked at. My work work is journalistic. It's tight and to the point, and rarely verve-filled, and I tend to run amok in fiction.A good editor is almost more valuable than a good writer. Writer's are flamboyant and enthusiastic, spreading their words and sounds and visions across the page, and editors reign them in, rope them down, and cut, cut, cut and change until the final product is so much more worthy than the original. Editors know how to put the caesura in, to eliminate the flab, to curve and shape, and caress in a way that the writer simply can't.
So, started off the morning with revisions and then discovered that none of my links worked because I didn't inlcude http://. Bangs head against desk repeatedly. They are now fixed. HTML is a little precise for me. If I forget a /, I'm screwed. I need coding that has a margin of error! Guess that doesn't really track with the whole tech thing though. The next thing I have to figure out is how to install comments for a blog. That may be the death of my techy leanings. I just don't get it.
