the weekend has officially started

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for all who love reading or writing, here's a hilarious excerpt from TIME's michael kinsley

Writers Vs. Editors: A Battle for the Ages

Like the detectives and the prosecutors on Law & Order, two very different groups of people are responsible for
the words that fill the world's magazines and newspapers. There are the writers, who produce the prose, and the
editors, who do their best to wreck it.

Writers are sensitive souls--generally intelligent and hardworking but easily bruised. Treat them right, though,
and you will be rewarded. Writers shape words into luminous sentences and the sentences into exquisitely
crafted paragraphs. They weave the paragraphs together into a near perfect article, essay or review. Then their
writing--their baby--is ripped untimely from their computers (well, maybe only a couple of weeks overdue) and
turned over to editors. These are idiots, most of them, and brutes, with tin ears, the aesthetic sensitivity of insects,
deeply held erroneous beliefs about your topic and a maddening conviction that any article, no matter how
eloquent or profound or already cut to the bone, can be improved by losing an additional 100 words.

Editors are selfless, editors believe. They labor in anonymity and take their satisfaction vicariously. The writer gets
all the glory. He gets the big bucks. He gets invited to the parties, the openings, the symposia, while the editors
toil at their desks turning the writer's random jottings and pretentious stylistic quirks into something resembling
English prose. But that's O.K. Editors don't mind. They say, "Have a lovely time at that writers' conference, and
we'll have the rewrite done when you get back."


shirls' note: if you like that as much as i do, go ahead enjoy the full article

and ah yes, writers are egoistical, whiny, self-indulgent creatures
but still... WRITERS RULE!! =)

have a God-filled weekend, everyone!

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s.h.i.r.l.s musing away at 7:01 pm