Tuesday, December 20, 2011

change modify revise alter rewrite amend chop to pieces change”

[“The strongest drive is not love or hate. It is one person’s need to change modify revise alter rewrite amend chop to pieces change another’s copy.”]

The above poster appears in Arthur Plotnik’s The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists (New York: Macmillan, 1982).

Also from The Elements of Editing
“Plotnik’s mantra of follow-up”

comments: 2

Elaine said...

How funny that is!
An editing assignment certainly seems to go to some folks' heads.

Seth said...

That's brilliant.