Re: OT: Books on writing?

[Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, andy turnbull wrote:
> I've been an editor myself a few times since then, (once as copy editor
> on a big paper, a couple of times as editor of weeklies and a couple
> more times as editor of trade magazines). I think writing is the better
> job, but as a writer the one tool I want most is a good editor.

Amen to that. They're rare.
By the way, there need be no argument between the "spontaneous flow" and
the "edit-as-you-go" schools. I find that the editing I do as I write is
quite different from the editing I do to my text once it is completed.

Carlo Caballero
thyrsus@xxxxxxxx