Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:00:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: An imaginary conversation in the backroom ofabookstore . . . .
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

One story was completely rewritten, changing the main
character.  That story was marked as by James Schmitz
and one of the editors (but nothing to indicate that
the story wasn't originally published that way).  One
of the Telzey stories was substantially cut and
re-edited.

Flint has stated that many of his cuts were
eliminating background material necessary for
independent magazine pieces but repetitive in a
collection.

>
> 1.  Schmitz was a writer of commercial fiction.
> Commercial fiction gets
> edited.  I strongly suspect his stories were
> originally edited for their
> magazine appearances.
>
> 2.  Schmitz was not an outstanding prose stylist.
> He *needed* some
> editing.
>
> 3.  That said, if the Baen editing was "extensive,"
> how was it applied?
> Were plots changed?  Were passages cut?  Were
> passages extensively
> rewritten?   In other words, would a casual reader
> have noticed these
> changes -- or would that reader have felt the
> editing was an improvement?
>
> --Ted White
>

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