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What Editors Do, A Rebuttal

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Gene Stewart

It strikes me that editors asking for changes is simply another way of stripping our voices from the work. Whatcha think? Yes, a good editor can focus a work but I don’t see that happening more than once in every … Continue reading →

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Finding Your Own Voice In Writing

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Developing writers with ambition all want to find their own voices, craft their own styles, and become known as the only source for their particular writing. Then they grow up and discover that editors hate that and want mostly pastiche … Continue reading →

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Brief Statement About Self Publishing

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Gene Stewart

If you write only one 90,000-word novel per year, all you have to write is ten or eleven words an hour. Publishers want only a book a year. They pretend it’s about quality, as if somehow there is a gauge … Continue reading →

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Aprés Livre, Le Deluge

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Gene Stewart

Prestige markets for fiction can get away with having a computer program for an editor that filters for recognized names only. They’ll even win awards and accolades for doing this. Lesser paying, lower profile fiction markets are forced to be … Continue reading →

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