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Old 04-18-2012, 11:30 AM   #135
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
As a long-term editor of literary magazines, small press novels and major press anthologies, I can tell you that most authors I've dealt with will fight to the death for their original wording. Besides which, it's a mistake to invest dead authors with imagined behavior unless you're writing about them as characters.

As an author who's published a fair bit, I can tell you I'd be incredibly annoyed at those kinds of substitutions after going through thirty-seven drafts to get the rhythm and diction just right.
Editing is what editors do. That's why they are called - well, er, "editors". They edit things.

One would expect a professional editor to have a much better idea of what changes are required to make a book commercially successful than the average author does.
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