What Makes Editors the Way They Are - A Tongue in Cheek Appraisal!

Why editors are the way they are---

Have your pieces been mangled endlessly?

Have you been at the receiving end of an editor's arrogance lately?

Do you dread seeing your name at the top of a muddled and distorted piece?

Have you felt like committing hara kiri? Giving it all up? Packing it all in?

Don't! Hang on! It's not what you think!

Read on and discover why editors are the way they are, what could make them the way they are and feel better...

A promising theory---

I have a theory! It's a theory no self righteous editor is going to accept. But it's one I believe that all writers will lovingly embrace! And that is that most editors are a jealous lot! A lazy bunch! And how have I reached these preposterous conclusions? If you were a writer, you will undoubtedly agree and well if you were an editor, you might well want to dump me and the articles I might send you the next time, into the ubiquitous bin that sits next to you.

They know no better...

My conclusions are I'd like to plead, based on experience. Much rueful experience .Of having my masterpieces, such as they, are mutilated beyond repair by people, who should have known better but who didn't. There is much truth, in the adage that "those can (will) 'do', while those who cannot, 'don't'". Apply it to writers and editors and what do you have? Well those who 'can' will write and those who 'can't' will find great happiness in chopping, changing, cutting, rewriting something they would have liked to write but could not have written in a hundred years! Get my point?

Itchy fingers...

Did I really say it 'like' that; could I have actually written it 'that' way, you wonder for a disappointed moment. But thrilled at seeing you articles in print you couldn't care less and carry on blithely. But when it happens again and again, euphoria gives way to doubt, doubt to anger and anger to dejection. And when they do appear sometimes without any cuts, changes or rewrites you actually feel blessed! You begin to dread sending them in. You start to lose confidence, even wonder if your writing is at fault. No it's not. The very fact they are publishing it says it's not. It's only because God has itchy fingers!