Here's a Thought

Never throw up on an editor.

~Ellen Datlow

I read this quote and laughed. The admonition: Never throw up on an editor reminded me of my article "I Think I'm Gonna' Be Sick."

It's okay to write a lousy first draft. It's obligatory. Really.

Just don't send that oh-so-wretched first draft to an editor. That's why you re-write. And re-write again. So that an editor receives the final copy that sings.

Thoughts, anyone?

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