None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.
I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.
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