The most humiliating note I've ever received, and some of yours, too
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Recently, an editor left a comment in a Google doc teaching me how to make an em-dash. It was attached to my usual "--" which I've used in countless rough drafts during my time as a freelance writer. I have no excuses for why I never learned how to produce the far more handsome "—," it's just one of my longstanding weirdo typographic tics that I've never purged. This has been a problem for a long time; I've opened countless docs after an editor's first pass to witness how they've painstakingly beautified every one of my garish --'s, and I guess some part of me believed that this was the proofreading process at work. An editor is responsible for fixing my stupid typos, distilling my nodulous sentences, evaluating the strengths of weaknesses of the reporting, and of course, adding in all the em-dashes that I myself failed to administer.
The most humiliating note I've ever received, and some of yours, too
The most humiliating note I've ever received…
The most humiliating note I've ever received, and some of yours, too
Recently, an editor left a comment in a Google doc teaching me how to make an em-dash. It was attached to my usual "--" which I've used in countless rough drafts during my time as a freelance writer. I have no excuses for why I never learned how to produce the far more handsome "—," it's just one of my longstanding weirdo typographic tics that I've never purged. This has been a problem for a long time; I've opened countless docs after an editor's first pass to witness how they've painstakingly beautified every one of my garish --'s, and I guess some part of me believed that this was the proofreading process at work. An editor is responsible for fixing my stupid typos, distilling my nodulous sentences, evaluating the strengths of weaknesses of the reporting, and of course, adding in all the em-dashes that I myself failed to administer.