- ARCHIVE / editing
- the power and responsibility of editing
A good editor might make your writing. A bad editor will ruin it.
Raymond Carver has long been one of my favorite writers. His terse, emotionally complex prose isn’t to everyone’s taste, but I’ve found it to mine. Recent revelations about his relationship with his editor, Gordon Lish, make me wonder just who it is I’ve [...] - the question mark and the quotes
Editing isn’t always about what’s right. Sometimes, it’s about what works.
The title of my last post read as follows: what is “design thinking”?
The choice to put the question mark outside of the quotation marks was 100% intentional. It was also, technically, wrong.
Traditional rules of punctuation hold that punctuation marks stay inside the quotes. In most [...]