Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:39:04 -0400 From: Kit Mason <kit at hers.com> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Could use some editing, was So Many Universes, SoLittle Time Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Michael Walsh wrote: > > > kit at hers.com 04/16/02 04:46PM >>> > >Erica VD Ginter wrote: > >> > >> Anne McCaffrey. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Who else gets away with it now = > that > >> they're a Big Name? > > > >Stephen King. > Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I must admit that I stopped reading him a while back when I had the undeniable urge to red-pencil two-thirds of his pages. Life's too short for that. The only things of his that I've enjoyed in years are "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" and his book on writing. > > Tom Clancy. > He tell his writing staff that . . . Nice to know there's more than one to blame for some of that verbiage ... Kit