Re: Editors: threat or menace?
Quadibloc wrote:
I know that some of the Golden Age authors wrote of how editors helped
them greatly in the earlier stages of their careers.
Why have things changed?
After all, a writer is often too close to his own work to see the
flaws.
One thing that's changed is that there is a lot more material out
there on how to write professionally. So there are enough authors out
there with a modicum of craftsmanship that editors don't need to take
the time to lead promising beginners by the hand.
And I remember a poster noting that editors are much busier nowadays,
so perhaps it is true they don't do much more than provide obstructive
opinions... editing masterpieces the wrong way.
There are also orders of magnitude more credible manuscripts. I read
where there are something like 30K manuscripts bouncing around the New
York publishers at any one time. That simply wasn't true in the Golden
Age. So, roughly the same number of publishers, a reading public that
will not go above a certain price per book, and slushpiles that are
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rec.arts.sf.composition is a USENET group, and can be accessed for free.
Ourdebate.com therefore sucks (the life from discourse),
and dribbles (deceit when integrity would have worked just as well).
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