Let's take a look at some of the issues surrounding
the editing end of things.
Not exact matches
I realize that stay - at - home opportunities run anywhere from simple web surfing / research to jobs needing a background (
editing, for example, which is part
of my work history), but I'd love to know if anyone has recommendations, probably on the simpler / more flexible
end of things.»
At the
end of 2014 I did a big look back at the year that was
ending, posting a roundup
of outfits and so on, however to do
things a little differently this year I have decided to swap with Mon and each do a «guest
edit»
of our favourite posts for the year.
«I've never worked on a film, ever, where the order
of scenes didn't get change and
things from the back half didn't
end up at the front half,» he says
of editing.
When the discussions
end and the
editing begins, the two parties need to have found a wavelength, a
thing of valleys and mountains.
Self - published authors can hire freelance editors to comb their books for typos and grammatical mistakes, but when it comes to structural
editing — telling the author the third quarter
of a novel is too windy or insisting that the current
ending needs to be tossed out entirely and redone,
things no writer likes to hear but some writers need to — an editor - for - hire is much less motivated to displease her client even when demanding major rewrites would make for a better book.
One issue is that traditional publishers still handle a lot
of things many authors have trouble with, like
editing, artwork, and professional formatting
of the
end product (e-book or p - book).
I'll be bookmarking it for reference, as it's all too easy to «forget» these
things in the midst
of the never -
ending task list that is writing,
editing and publishing,
Covers,
editing, promotion, you can do them on the cheap but the most likely outcome is not going to be great (and the sad
thing is that it's not even a case
of «you get what you pay for» because sometimes you don't even get that; I spent a lot
of money on editors and
ended up with error - ridden books nonetheless).
In a year
end review
of big stories, the buzz around the publication
of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman and the revelations that it was an earlier version
of what became the heavily revised and strongly
edited To Kill a Mockingbird offers NPR's All
Things Considered a chance to ask «What Exactly Does an Editor Do?»
I did make it clear in the blog post that NaughtyDog were finished and I was talking about the new studio who will take over Literally the first paragraph «one
thing we do know for sure is that NaughtyDog will have no part
of it»
EDIT @ Below «I don't wan na see any Uncharted from another studio» The problem is it's going to happen whether we like it or not, just like how we don't want Konami continuing MGS without Kojima, in the
end it's going to happen.
It's sad that while this is much more important than all the crap Nintendo has been getting over clothing
edits as
of late, the latter
ends up being the
thing Nintendo gets yelled at about more often and makes news.
If I may, and please take this in the sincere, honest and helpful way that it is intended... I do wish that Gavin had not
edited your response, but it seems that you got carried away with its length, and in any event in the
end it wasn't necessary, because you were «tilting at windmills» by arguing
things that people here really don't even blink at (such as outrageous claims by fools in the media which are mere misunderstandings or distortions
of the actual science, which is what the people here know and pay attention to).