Prompts = Culture, Punctuation, Period
Writers think they’re all that. Snort. Want to know who keeps the culture barbarians at bay? Editors.
Writers would have you believe their characters can do amazing deeds. But it’s editors who make sure they’re wearing pants while doing them.
Yes, editors work with punctuation: periods and commas, even semicolons when feeling a little naughty. But it’s more than twiddling with grammar.
Writing is pure expression. Editing pulls order from chaos.
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Franklin set the pen down, read over what he’d written for the annual meeting of the National Editor’s Union.
Complete horse shit, of course, but they ate it up.
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