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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Narrative writers have a lot more freedom than academic, business, or technical writers; they are very different forms of writing aimed at different kinds of communication. One seeks to convey moods and emotions as well as factual data while the other seeks clarity and precision. Both require mastery of the language but have different constraints and expectations. An emotionally charged business proposal might be cause for dismissal while a cold, emotionless precisionist novel had better be about robots or vulcans.  |
Same distinction applies in editing. Editors and copy editors who are used to working with academic/technical material are not always a good fit for fiction and popular nonfiction mss.