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Thursday, September 15, 2005
An Editor's Curse
What is the one thing editors can't seem to stop doing? That's right. Not even 1 guess needed.

We can't seem to stop seeing everything through an editor's glasses. Well, that's true for me, at any rate. Can't speak for all editors, I s'pose. :-)

Case in point:

I actually get home at a relatively decent hour and decide I'm going to read one of the tons of books I've bought since January and haven't even touched. We're talking literally hundreds of books that I have in my grubby possession that have waited ever so patiently.... *weeping*

So, I'm going to do the unheard of thing called -- gasp! -- leisure reading. I select a book at random, open it up and BAM! right there, right THERE is a sentence that needs serious punctuation help, because I had to read it twice to make sense of it.

I go along, and WHAP! right in my face, staring defiantly at me, is another sentence that has unparallel construction! The, the, the horror!! :-O

Bravely, I forge forward, whimpers falling into the air around me. A few paragraphs go by without anything untoward. I relax. Take a sip of my tea. Kick up my feet and swing 'em back and forth. Ahhhh, this is the life!

Until --

ACK!!! Several run-on sentences...in 1 (count 'em! 1!) paragraph that aren't even in logical sequence!!

*collapses in a heap*

I moan and I groan and I want to reach right out to strangle the editor who let these things pass...all within the space of TWO pages!! AUGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

Okay, so you think I'm a freak because I had to stop reading. And you'd be right, because, quite frankly, I cringe when I see these things on the printed page or the electronic document. No matter how good a story is, typos and grammatical mistakes will always distract me. Just call me the ADHD editor. In fact, I had planned a pet peeves post soon, and right up there with rude people and public nose-pickers are things that should have been readily caught during the editing process but somehow slide through...like spelling errors.

FAUGH!


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