From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Could use some editing, was So Many Universes, SoLittle  Time
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:14:33 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Oh, the urge to edit what one is reading! It's hard to keep disbelief
suspended with a metaphorical red pencil in your hand!

Erica

-----Original Message-----
From: Kit Mason [mailto:kit at hers.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:39 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Could use some editing, was So Many Universes,
SoLittle Time

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