Is sighs important? Is your hare naturally curly? What rites did slaves have in the USA before the Seville War? Would you want to play a new roll in an upcoming TV series? These are all important questions that need an editor’s careful hand before they can be answered correctly. If your table placings compliment your dishes should you go to the doctor because you are hearing voices or would you just let your editor make a change and save you a journey?
Yes, editing matters, and the smallest changes make so much difference. A simple space turns atom cat that can’t be seen let alone stroked into a purring pet that the children love to play with. A thief may stuff his lute into the bag of swag, but why does he take a musical instrument with him when he breaks into other people’s houses? A good editor removes the doubts in the reader’s mind, has more patience than a specialist, and operates with the precision of a surgeon, which comes in useful when dealing with colons and semicolons.
Editors ensure that a subject always agrees with its verb and that pronouns agree with an antecedent, so making even the most experienced negotiator green with envy. An editor can actively unjam the passive and preserve the writer’s voice as a result. Editors can even reduce a reader’s tension by correcting tenses.
A lot of righters don’t keep there I’s pealed most of the thyme, but editors keep their eyes peeled all the time. Editors ensure that modifiers are placed, that sentences run just the correct distance, and that commas don’t burgeon like butterflies around a buddleia. A writer’s participles will never dangle with an editor in tow.
A good editor is to die for and every writer kneeds one, including me! Any offers?
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