#may vary

[piltover-sharpshooter]

//If your muse wants a Valentine’s day gift from Caitlyn, like this post and she’ll appear on your inbox on Valentine’s day.

And get ready to be PAMPERED.

[allo-frouto]

Fave sex position?

Missionary at the moment.

[soufaked]

💘

Love/Hate Relationship // Not accepting! (2/8)

　Love

　He is so obscenely expressive and I absolutely love it, no matter how fake or theatrical most of the emotions he shows on his face are. He’s not the stoic kind, even when he tries to appear like so at times.

　Hate

　He’s so good at bullshitting, vocally and emotionally, that sometimes I have a REAL hard time reading whether or not one of his emotes are the real deal. I hate this sO MUCH. Thankfully, I’m more or less figuring him out. Kinda.

[thehopelesslyheartbroken]

All these people in one room, sharing this same event, while each of them would carry a completely different memory of this one night.

[thebibliosphere]

A while back I translated a children’s book from Hebrew to English (my second book after Daya Marnin’s ‘Murderess’). It had a lot of solid points but some very notable flaws e.g. a main character who was a serious Marty Stu, the pacing was somewhat off, geographic inconsistencies, &c. I pointed those out and she accepted the constructive criticism really, really well, and now she wants an editor to smooth those kinks out. So my question is, how extensive can you make changes when you edit?

It all depends on how much work needs to be done and what type of editor you are. A copy editor will hunt for mistakes and flaws in accuracy, this can either be something like regional dialect, places, names, or pointing out that in one chapter a character is described as tall and broad but in the next one petite and slim. General editors will take on the notes of a copy editor, and pick apart the book and sometimes completely restructure it. We hope we don’t have to, but sometimes things just don’t work in certain places so we move part of chapter a into chapter b or we remove it entirely. All of this is done while working in tandem with the author, who is free to accept or reject changes, just as a publishing house can lay down certain rules and say “well this doesn’t work for us so you either conform to this or you take your text and leave”. Freelance is a little different, because you have no authority to adhere to, only your own opinion which the author can feel free to ignore completely. It’s a huge undertaking on both parties, but the end result is often worth it, especially if the author is open to constructive criticism and the editor knows what they are doing.

I can copy edit to an extent although I don’t have the same resources I have anymore for fact checking at hand. General editing of a story for how it functions, correcting errors and basic formatting  is par for the course. I’ve even ghost written one or two stories in my time when an author still wanted the pay cheque from the house but had no interest in working on a particular series anymore, which requires creativity and a knack for mimicking authorial styles.

Basically you take a book as far as you can go without rubbing out the author’s creative spark.