How can you possibly respect someone who cannot get off her butt and write but wants to tell others how to? Nope, I think it is unacceptable. And it makes me completely neurotic. Seriously. someone showed me some of her writing, where she saw birds flying in the moonless night sky. Needless to say, after my 'revisions' I never got asked again. I never jump off the cliff and can never be 'revised', but I submit others to 'revising'. Uh, Uhhh.
Editing isn't work to me, unless you present me with a deadline. I love doing it. What I hate is doing what (I hate)[I don't really hate it, but it's not what I desire to do]{typesetting/design} for my friends, and then they think that they can get more out of me and make demands on me than they would on an ordinary typesetter. And the laws of business just disappear out the window. Guilt arrives for almost anything an ordinary day would call minor.
When you do it willingly when asked, putting your soul into it, it's a collaboration, even if you are paid a nominal amount. If paid the value of your time it kinda gives the person the right to say, whiningly, "No, I think the writing at the top should be in green, don't you agree?"[always with the 'don't you agree' like they think that I think that their uneducated, visually impaired 'revisions' have any worth whatsoever]... With raised eyebrow: "No, I don't. Otherwise I would have made it green." A collaboration it is governed by the laws of friends, who never, ever call each other moron, not even halfwit. A collaboration is an exchange of respect for the efforts of the soul of the other.
Or you could trade me, mention my efforts positively in the acknowledgements. That way your Rowlingesque success can cast a warm glow nearby my feet. Not on them, you understand, just nearby.
Editing isn't work to me, unless you present me with a deadline. I love doing it. What I hate is doing what (I hate)[I don't really hate it, but it's not what I desire to do]{typesetting/design} for my friends, and then they think that they can get more out of me and make demands on me than they would on an ordinary typesetter. And the laws of business just disappear out the window. Guilt arrives for almost anything an ordinary day would call minor.
When you do it willingly when asked, putting your soul into it, it's a collaboration, even if you are paid a nominal amount. If paid the value of your time it kinda gives the person the right to say, whiningly, "No, I think the writing at the top should be in green, don't you agree?"[always with the 'don't you agree' like they think that I think that their uneducated, visually impaired 'revisions' have any worth whatsoever]... With raised eyebrow: "No, I don't. Otherwise I would have made it green." A collaboration it is governed by the laws of friends, who never, ever call each other moron, not even halfwit. A collaboration is an exchange of respect for the efforts of the soul of the other.
Or you could trade me, mention my efforts positively in the acknowledgements. That way your Rowlingesque success can cast a warm glow nearby my feet. Not on them, you understand, just nearby.
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