Practice Management

Writing Well: The Editor

By Dan Hull

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

--H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

--Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut 3 lines from a 5,000 word article.

Herbert George Wells, 1908

Full post as published by What About Clients? on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).