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The three kinds of editing [Jane Friedman]

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Say goodbye to a great copy-editor

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Excessive candor in an academic paper

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As one who makes a living off of apparent semantic nulls like hyphens, spaces, and caps, I welcome the new Internet style guide, though I will hyphenate "e-mail" until they pry my red pencil from my cold, dead fingers. And Cheeses! Now we know which ones to capitalize.

Thanx to

andrewducker

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I just remembered something else Frederik Pohl did. At a 70s Milford conference a new writer named Gustav Hasford brought in a work of military sf. Pohl suggested he redo it as mimetic fiction. He did so and called it The Short-Timers, and in his editorial role, Pohl bought it for Bantam. It was then filmed as Full Metal Jacket.