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Nathan Jerpe
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Date Joined Nov 2007
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Posted 3/21/2008 12:33 AM (GMT -4)

Jordan Lapp said...
Imagine, CW, that editing manuscripts is your full time job:

You have four clients, each with a novel length text, and you have a "slush" of, say, 100 single chapters sent to you by aspiring clients (a conservative number considering the number of query literary agents get). How are you going to find the time to do all that and still see your family?

You raise a surprisingly lucid point, Jordan, considering the size of that beer in your picture.

Suppose, OTOH, you do get a paying customer, and after some initial work it is obvious the two of you don't click? Do you finish the job and cash the check, and risk his discontent? Or do you stop, cut your losses, and move on to the next potential?

Keeping in mind a chapter could be overly generous; a page or two (or a poorly worded SFReader post?) might be enough to determine a match.

Also, there probably needs to be a distinction made between something you are assigned to edit as an editor, and something you are editing because you intend to publish it.

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Jordan Lapp
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Date Joined Sep 2006
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Posted 3/21/2008 2:00 PM (GMT -4)

If it's any consolation, I never noticed the rots acronym. I probably wouldn't have seen the trots either, except it was all capitalized.

I think the capitalization makes a difference.

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H.P. Lovesauce
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Date Joined Jul 2007
Total Posts : 575

Posted 3/21/2008 3:17 PM (GMT -4)

crystalwizard said...

von Darkmoor said...

To be honest, I've preferred TROTS from the beginning - and should have used it always. Especially after someone pointed out to me something I seriously never noticed till they did so (2 weeks ago): RotS = rots.

I don't like that association much at all. VIEW IMAGE VIEW IMAGE

Too late now. Sorry, Jason. My fault for starting that acronym. But everyone's using it and I don't think you'll be able to issue a recall. If it's any consolation, Steve Jackson didn't want to call GURPS by that name, either. But that's what Norman started calling it... Great Unnamed Rolplaying System. And by the time Steve realized what was going on, everyone was calling it GURPS. All he could do was try to come up with something cool for GURPS to mean and try to advertise it that way.

And really, WOFTRTM (Warmed-Over Fantasy Trip Rushed To Market) wouldn't have tripped off the tongue.

crystalwizard
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Date Joined Nov 2006
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Posted 3/21/2008 10:57 PM (GMT -4)

H.P. Lovesauce said...
And really, WOFTRTM (Warmed-Over Fantasy Trip Rushed To Market) wouldn't have tripped off the tongue.

And neither would MTMOA =Man to Man once again

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