Post by account_disabled on Nov 24, 2023 23:07:33 GMT -8
There were no editors in the time of the ancient Romans. If Phaedrus had had an editor, what would have changed at that time? That some of his fables would show the correct names of certain characters. Oh God, Phaedrus and Rabelais have a lot in common and perhaps someone would have wanted to debunk some of his fables. Editing: the refinement of the manuscript No editing is perfect. We all know – and I think the editors know too – that if we had ten of them read our manuscript, we would get ten different analyses. Maybe some of them might coincide, but in the end we might have ten books with a number of differences. This is to say that the word improvement is not to be understood in an absolute sense. What changes today compared to yesterday? By yesterday I mean both the times of Rabelais and those of Phaedrus.
How many authors were there and how many readers? Phone Number Data Very few. The market was not what it is today. I don't see the marketing of the book as something that downplays the art of writing. Which disfigures its beauty and poetry. Which turns it into an industry, into an assembly line. When we ask a friend for an opinion, it seems like natural behavior. Here: editing, the serious one, should be like this. Only, in that case, our friend is also someone who knows the market, who knows how to notice what a mutual friend wouldn't notice, who knows how to advise us on how to improve our story. The purity of writing After editing, therefore, after an external intervention, what remains of the writer? I remember that a few years ago I read an article by Daniele Bonfanti, he was the editor in chief of Edizioni XII, in which he talked about editing, describing it as a chat between friends. Such editing does not affect the purity of the writing, it brings out its best sides, it enhances it, if the editor is good.
But it is always the writer who writes, never forget that. It's always you who writes, not someone else. By taking advice from the editor, you are simply editing or rewriting a piece yourself. 5 – Unique story How many stories can we tell in a novel? I'm not talking about the subplots , which have another function - read Maria Teresa's post, which is in-depth - nor about the so-called backstories - digressions, narrative frames, analepsis and prolepsis - which serve to give more depth to the story, to enrich it, but I'm talking about real stories. I must, once again, bring up Cloud Atlas , which is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories. It's something that I had never read before and never read again (but it intrigued me to the point that I wrote 2 stories using a similar structure to it). The cloud atlas has a sextet structure: A, B, C, D, E, F, E, D, C, B, A, where each letter corresponds to a story, which is connected to the others.
How many authors were there and how many readers? Phone Number Data Very few. The market was not what it is today. I don't see the marketing of the book as something that downplays the art of writing. Which disfigures its beauty and poetry. Which turns it into an industry, into an assembly line. When we ask a friend for an opinion, it seems like natural behavior. Here: editing, the serious one, should be like this. Only, in that case, our friend is also someone who knows the market, who knows how to notice what a mutual friend wouldn't notice, who knows how to advise us on how to improve our story. The purity of writing After editing, therefore, after an external intervention, what remains of the writer? I remember that a few years ago I read an article by Daniele Bonfanti, he was the editor in chief of Edizioni XII, in which he talked about editing, describing it as a chat between friends. Such editing does not affect the purity of the writing, it brings out its best sides, it enhances it, if the editor is good.
But it is always the writer who writes, never forget that. It's always you who writes, not someone else. By taking advice from the editor, you are simply editing or rewriting a piece yourself. 5 – Unique story How many stories can we tell in a novel? I'm not talking about the subplots , which have another function - read Maria Teresa's post, which is in-depth - nor about the so-called backstories - digressions, narrative frames, analepsis and prolepsis - which serve to give more depth to the story, to enrich it, but I'm talking about real stories. I must, once again, bring up Cloud Atlas , which is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories. It's something that I had never read before and never read again (but it intrigued me to the point that I wrote 2 stories using a similar structure to it). The cloud atlas has a sextet structure: A, B, C, D, E, F, E, D, C, B, A, where each letter corresponds to a story, which is connected to the others.