I'm more casual in blog posts than I am with final manuscript copy. So sue me. Even my most polished work will still contain at least a couple of typos, grammatical errors, and too-late-to-be-fixed examples of clunky badness. I do not intone judgments from lofty heights of perfection.
However, if Carole Baron's point, as a professional book editor for Knopf, is to convince us mulish and knuckle-dragging scribes that we need her, I think she might do it better than this. What found its way into the Huffington Post under her byline was a brief and scattered argument against our general powers of understanding hung with clusters of ripe yuck. Gawker gleefully unpacks the editor's poorly written post about needing editors, and I borrowed their red pen.
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I read and reread and threeread my stuff and still the typos and goofs persist.
Me, too, so I want the help! But not bitter help.
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