Tag: red pen

10 Stages of Grief: The Editor’s Note Edition

Jun 3, 2009

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by

Steve Parolini

in Beyond Categorization, Meaningless Drivel, My Thoughts, The Publishing Process, The Writer’s Life

So let’s say you’ve made it through the first hoops and now your Amazing and Brilliant First Novel is sitting on the desk of a Real Life Editor at a Real Live Publishing House. Your contract has been framed and placed on the fireplace mantle between your dusty wedding photo and dustier 5th Grade Spelling…