tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093379.post9123840594693950878..comments2023-11-02T15:47:29.001+00:00Comments on particleblog: The Greatest Show on EarthTadhghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14763670950211297013noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093379.post-83637604900884984442007-03-25T19:17:00.000+00:002007-03-25T19:17:00.000+00:00I'm a little late to this, but actually you ARE wr...I'm a little late to this, but actually you ARE wrong, at least regarding the novelists. ;)<BR/><BR/>Any novelist will tell you (I've published 13, been on the NYT) that it's pure sit-down-there-and-write-it-yourself. It's the very definition of solo.<BR/><BR/>I can't speak to Shakespeare, but Austen did not get editorial input while she wrote, and I doubt Tolstoy did either. Even if they had, it would still be a lone-wolf process to write a book. There are a few authors such as Tom Wolfe who just wrote scads and then relied heavily on an editor to cut stuff, to the point you might say the editor made a significant contribution to the end product, but they are by far the exception to the rule.<BR/><BR/>In this day and age, editors don't do anything at all in terms of editing the manuscript. My last 3 books literally received NO editing. None. It's actually weird. Back in the 80's and 90's I did get some editorial suggestions, and we would fight back and forth a bit on this or that scene or character. But to call that a collaborative team process in terms of the creation itself is really to mis-characterize the project. It is editorial, after the fact. It works with an existing creation; it does not create. <BR/><BR/>Now it's a few red lines from the copy-editor that are so rare it's hard to find them in the manuscript w/o the Post-It tabs. I presume this is to save money? I don't really know.<BR/><BR/>I'm interested in game development and in fact one of my fears is the collaborative nature of it, because as a novelist I'm so accustomed to working on my own.<BR/><BR/>So just sayin...it doesn't really have much to do w/games, but novels are not typically collaborative at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com