Friday, April 13, 2007

GRAMAR

My comments aren't directly related to this response,but to the question in general. We need to beconcerned with presenting the best possible to anypotential editor. However:There never has been and will never be a publicationwith perfect grammar and spelling. This is, more thanlikely, more true with daily newspapers. We need tomake a deadline and get the work on the street. I canremember sitting in a newsroom listening to the copyeditor at the moment tell the ME at the time theerrors he had found in her piece from the day before.Many of the most famous authors of the 20th centuryrelied on their editors to make their workpresentable. There was a certain editor who took careFitzgerald's and Hemingway's work, (if memory doesn'tfail.) Robert Ludlum was notorious for turning inwork that required rewriting.Do your best and concern yourself with gettingpublished. I expect mud to fly, but I am simply telling the factsthe way they are.

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