Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:10:12 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A Short Editing Screed . . . [WSFA] Re: Anvil & Flint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 03/24/02 06:21PM

my own prose excised . . .

>As the occasional victim of bad editing (the worst was a copyeditor at =
Signet,
>who changed a character saying "From space, my planet looks browner =
than
>yours,"
>to "...my universe looks browner than yours" -- and we all know now that =
the
>universe is, what?  Beige?), I can only offer heartfelt agreement with =
what
>you've said.
>
>Like Campbell, I've worked both sides of the fence, and as an editor I =
always
>appreciated good writers:  they require the least editing.  (I was the
>copyeditor on Ursula LeGuin's LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS.  I changed
>maybe three
>words in the course of that novel -- and queried them all.)  Of all the =
major SF
>writers I've edited/copyedited, I liked Brian Aldiss least.
>
>--Ted White

Other than catching a minor problem in The Father of Stones (WSFA Press, =
1989) by Lucius Shepard, my ability to "edit" is problematic and I leave =
it to Those Who Know More.

mjw