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Bad Pete (not verified) says:
LOL! Fortunately, I'm happy to report that none of Ashley's assumptions are true--not a curmudgeon, no bad attitude, not unpublished, by far. Actually, some of my work in kids media has won awards, and I don't have a drawer full of awful and unpublishable mss, but I do have drawers of fan letters from kids and a head full of further ideas I haven't had time to develop yet. Maybe I'll contact Cindy and she could help me bring one of those to full-bodied fruition (as long as I wouldn't have to sign the copyright over to Alloy, lol), so that we could both benefit and profit and, most of all, have fun in a new fictional universe...
...because, in fact, I love good editors and have many times had the...[redundancy alert as I can't think of a better word here:] benefit of awesome ones myself. Further in fact, I would not be surprised in the least if the submitted original mss by [whoever the author is] were bordering on utterly hideous, except perhaps for the concept. So editors truly are the unsung heroes, and I have NO doubt Cindy probably made the whole thing work and does completely deserve this. Also, having been on both sides of the desk, I'm well aware that a good and astute writer can learn to become a great writer by paying attention to the insightful, nonarbitrary editorial changes and suggestions of a brilliant editor.
In conclusion, suffice it to say that after living in L.A. too long, where writers are the essence of the 'biz' but scorned and dissed by nearly all who need them (even though I'm grateful to say this hasn't happened to me), I feel a certain knee-jerk reaction when everyone's raving about a non-originator of some material and the writer/originator isn't even acknowledged. So all I was really noting is that, were a person unfamiliar with the series, they would be clueless (ha ha) as to who the actual author was, which I do think does deserve some mention somewhere along the line [even in cases where in fact their writing is crap, which it too often is]. I repeat, I don't have a bad attitude nor do I even slightly hold grudges or resentments toward editors, since I've had the great good karma to work almost exclusively with fantastic ones, for whom I hold the highest respect.
I just feel grossed out by Hollywood's general mega-ego mentality and all this reminded me of that. Big cheers to Cindy!
LOL! Fortunately, I'm happy to report that none of Ashley's assumptions are true--not a curmudgeon, no bad attitude, not unpublished, by far. Actually, some of my work in kids media has won awards, and I don't have a drawer full of awful and unpublishable mss, but I do have drawers of fan letters from kids and a head full of further ideas I haven't had time to develop yet. Maybe I'll contact Cindy and she could help me bring one of those to full-bodied fruition (as long as I wouldn't have to sign the copyright over to Alloy, lol), so that we could both benefit and profit and, most of all, have fun in a new fictional universe...
...because, in fact, I love good editors and have many times had the...[redundancy alert as I can't think of a better word here:] benefit of awesome ones myself. Further in fact, I would not be surprised in the least if the submitted original mss by [whoever the author is] were bordering on utterly hideous, except perhaps for the concept. So editors truly are the unsung heroes, and I have NO doubt Cindy probably made the whole thing work and does completely deserve this. Also, having been on both sides of the desk, I'm well aware that a good and astute writer can learn to become a great writer by paying attention to the insightful, nonarbitrary editorial changes and suggestions of a brilliant editor.
In conclusion, suffice it to say that after living in L.A. too long, where writers are the essence of the 'biz' but scorned and dissed by nearly all who need them (even though I'm grateful to say this hasn't happened to me), I feel a certain knee-jerk reaction when everyone's raving about a non-originator of some material and the writer/originator isn't even acknowledged. So all I was really noting is that, were a person unfamiliar with the series, they would be clueless (ha ha) as to who the actual author was, which I do think does deserve some mention somewhere along the line [even in cases where in fact their writing is crap, which it too often is]. I repeat, I don't have a bad attitude nor do I even slightly hold grudges or resentments toward editors, since I've had the great good karma to work almost exclusively with fantastic ones, for whom I hold the highest respect.
I just feel grossed out by Hollywood's general mega-ego mentality and all this reminded me of that. Big cheers to Cindy!