An Editor With Conscience?

[inksplotter]

Should I feel guilty about this?

I was hired to edit a book, I ran out of time and I've dropped five thousand words or so, but I haven't improved the plots or the characters.

[boxtops]

I think the answer to your question is not so much guilty, as ashamed for not fulfilling your brief.

[shoota]

Cullable gullible

[kvalidir]

This is the man with 'above average reading skills though' Lie-in-King, not just one of us mere mortals ;-)

[shoota]

Gullibles travails.

[Lie-in King]

kvaldir - :-))

[boxtops]

I'd forgotten that boast, kv - perhaps the omitted sections were too complicated for the rest of us to comprehend.

[Lie-in King]

Apoloigies, spilling mistook on your name - "what a mistake-a to make-a!"

[Baldric]

For anyone who hasn't already seen it

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Arts-and-Literature/Question1344390.html

[boxtops]

You accepted £20K to edit a book which you didn't have time to edit (is this because it was a late commission, or you didn't plan your time...?)

Who's paying you, a publishing house, or the author? I'm appalled.

[black_cat51]

doesn't he mean it was 20k words?

[naomi24]

shoota, very good. :o)

[sherrardk]

I'm wondering if it's a book about owls.

[boxtops]

Ah - perhaps it was 20K words - in which case he's removed a quarter of the book!

[boxtops]

...or perhaps the book is indeed about the rickety rackety bridge, naomi :-)

[boxtops]

^ sorry - sherrard, not naomi....

[kvalidir]

Yeah re-read it its 20,000 words which means as Boxy so rightly said he's culled a quarter of the whole book. Allegedly.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-moUyV8lNO6k8XsgGof2WX6WQh8YkIlPVURFrXTEs1RZOEx7iLw

[boxtops]

I'd hardly brag about it, if that were the case - as author, I'd be mightily peed off.

[SirOracle]

Inksplotter If your conscience is troubling you because you have deleted 25% of the contents of the book,then you could always return 25% of the fee to the author.

It may make you feel better.!!

[scorpiojo]

:-)