As I have said here previously, every writer, no matter how talented, requires an editor. I don’t care who they are–EVERYONE needs an editor, me included.

Eric

That may be the best discussion on the value of editing that I have yet run across. As someone who writes for a living (though not Civil War history – not yet, anyway), I can’t stress enough how important it is to have a good editor and know how to work with that person.

I was fortunate enough to have a professor for freshman English who knocked me down from an A to a B if a paper contained a single passive sentence or unwieldy construction, and I’ve spent most of the past 27 years thanking him (of course I resented the hell out of him at the time). He was my first editor, and he made me realize that no matter how talented a writer I became, I would always need a good editor. And they’re not easy to find.

Now if someone will please pass your comments on to the folks running certain Civil War publishers who seem to have decided to save money by cutting out editors (most of us know who they are)…

I can honestly say that I have never been able to make it all the way through an entire Faulkner novel. One can only read so many three page-long sentences before going insane. 🙂

Eric

Us Faulknerian Constructionists jes loves our smarmy self indulgent intoxification with the beauty of a waterfall of sonorous wordfall :). Clipt writing is the same sort of dumb down that gives us the History Channel.
What’s wrong with some good ole post grad persiflage?

Oh? You say you want to actually get published? Well. Nevermind….

😉