Comments on: 6 Writer Attributes Your Editor Wants

By: Lori Widmer

Lori Widmer — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:05:43 +0000

Anne, great point. Dull writing makes no sense -- why bother if you're not going to put your stamp on it? Never understood that.

Paula, your reliability is why they love you (and your talent is why they call you again and again).

By: Paula Hendrickson

Paula Hendrickson — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:05:26 +0000

Anne, I'll nominate you as Head of the World if you promise to eliminate leaf blowers. (Last year, a neighbor walking his dog saw my nextdoor neighbor's low-rent lawn guy blowing their leaves into my yard. He said he confronted the guy who told him to "F" off - claiming the leaves had come from my tree. Right. My tiny little maple...that I'd already raked up after at least once by then.) Yeah....they didn't hire him again.

I have to say I for one am glad there are so many unreliable writers out there. Many times over the years my editors have called or emailed asking if I could take an assignment another writer had bailed on, without informing them until it was already past due, of course.

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:15:56 +0000

When I was editing, in addition to those I hated dull writing... often hard to quantify or explain, but easy to recognize and reject.

Also missing deadlines... two very different problems.

Re leaf blowers. When 'they' finally put me in charge of the world those will go, I promise. (And that's irony in case someone misses it.)