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I Agree, but . . .
it is difficult for authors to manage the misused word business. After three novels in excess of 250,000 words each, I still find my own errors. Of course, what fries my ass is a lazy author, who feels that an editor will catch these things. Editors will miss 'em, but just submit a work to an acquisition editor. What they catch will get you a rejection - sure as fire (cliche - whoops!). Still, I revise my works a minumum of four times, and I have a brigade of editor friends that help catch "things." There's no excuse for it if I'm to lay claim to it as a profession. Such msuse throws a reader out of the story, and that's to be avoided. Why on this blog site "On Writing" a few moments ago, one blogger states that they submitted a "peace" instead of a "piece." Now maybe it was a treaty as opposed to a treatise, but what that told me about the writer, I dare not state. I will file it in my mental reject pail (or pale) he he.
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MedicineFlower
on November 26, 2007 at 6:35 PM
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