fireweed@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.world · 2 days agoThe "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series is just one brand new sentence after another [note: contains spoilers for The Gate of the Feral Gods]lemmy.worldimagemessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up162arrow-down1imageThe "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series is just one brand new sentence after another [note: contains spoilers for The Gate of the Feral Gods]lemmy.worldfireweed@lemmy.world to Books@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square41linkfedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51348308 From The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 hours agoEh, I like it when a book is different and follows what the author wants it to be. Editing is useful, but a good editor won’t change more than absolutely necessary. Bad editors make everything the same.
minus-squareStarya67@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·19 hours agoA good editor makes sure words mean what they’re supposed to mean. Like, when something is “similar” it’s not “identical.” I swear I thought I’d had a stroke during some paragraphs.
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Eh, I like it when a book is different and follows what the author wants it to be. Editing is useful, but a good editor won’t change more than absolutely necessary. Bad editors make everything the same.
A good editor makes sure words mean what they’re supposed to mean. Like, when something is “similar” it’s not “identical.”
I swear I thought I’d had a stroke during some paragraphs.