Friday, August 20, 2010

An Editor's Lament

"This author just loves his passive voice, and his run-on sentences, and stringing together three or four or even five prepositional phrases. I swear, he just wraps them around the main idea of the sentence like a string of Christmas lights on a tree."

2 comments:

Steve Miller, Writer of Stuff said...

Hmmmm... have you been talking to one my MY editors? (I've got that problem. Been trying to lick it my entire writing life.

Wesley M. said...

Everyone has those problem to some degree. I know I do, too. I've just never seen it on this level.

And I would much rather be editing your stuff right now!