In praise of editors

By Linda Brinson What an interesting feature on National Public Radio this week: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130838304 It seems that even though Jane Austen’s brother Henry said that “Everything came finished from her pen,” the great writer really did need an editor. Recent research shows that Austen’s writing needed quite a bit of work before it became the elegant, … Continue reading In praise of editors