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Originally posted by CarneVaca
Johnny, we all work in our own special way, and that of course is good. It is rare, however, for a first draft to be perfect. Frankly, I've seen no such beast.
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Then you haven't seen any of my work.
I strive for absolute perfection when I write and usually find myself editing things twenty times before I allow them to be used. I just absolutely despise when someone else edits my stuff and cuts it to pieces.
I write a lot of op-eds (some get published, some don't) and I send a few of them out to various newspapers for consideration. I got an email back from the op-ed editor of a paper in California about a year ago and she said she was going to publish it with pretty much no editing. Two days later, she sends me a PDF copy of it, all edited and butchered. She had taken the body and put it before the intro, changed my wording; it was a real beast. I sent her an email saying that the Washington post was considering it (
) for publication and that they wanted an exclusive, so she dropped it and ran something else.
I was rather pissed off because it's next to impossible to get op-eds published, but I got over it eventually.
Ah, my big fling with publishing.
