A
huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh
for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is
for you. Click on Alex’s name to join.
I’d
like to praise all great editors everywhere who help us writers to look so
good. Sure, I came up with the idea for the story, sat my behind down and wrote
my heart out, reviewed and edited my work until I felt nauseous, gave it to my
beta readers, edited some more and then took the risk to query a
publisher. Being told they’d publish my
work had me jumping up and down.
Then
the real work began. My editor worked a miracle on my piece and made it
fabulous. Way better than it had been going into round one. Which made me wonder how good of a writer I
was to begin with. Huge sigh. How come I didn’t see all of these blaring
mistakes such as overused words, adverbs aplenty, and echoes galore? How come I didn’t know that I needed to add
more emotion to my character? Or worse yet, how to do it without her guidance.
Praising all editors. Hip, hip, hip hurray!
