CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
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Mongoose's Reputation for poor Editing
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Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Don't worry, Ayn wasn't a Virgin.
I keep them if they help with clarity
Why remove them? Using them is one of the lessons one of my favorite people, Kevin J. Anderson, drilled into my little writing head. (Notice, folks, I said, favorite person, not favorite writer - sorry, Kevin, if you're lurking here somewhere.)
This 100% should be a thing. It's crazy none of the products are dated.
agentwigggles
Cosmic Mongoose
I think part of the issue at hand, is rpg books require very detailed, repeated reads. And a lot of us, are trying to internalize the information to actually use them.
So errors pop out.
Something that has always confused with these complaints, is that we never see raw manuscripts, (and probably shouldnt ever) to what first submitted drafts is or how many drafts each manuscripts goes through. Though I think for some folks, any number given on the number of drafts, it wouldnt be enough. We cant conceptulize how much work was done from when it was first turned into, to what was released.
Something else that always confused me, is that errors that jump out to you readily, are assumed to be errors that jump out to everyone readily. Eg, 'if i spotted them, then they're ignoring them or arent placing effort into them'. Thats never made sense to me.
Error rate would be interesting to have stats on. That feels something that something like Ennie Awards could do. Wouldnt be a whole census of the rpg industry but it would be a lot of them. Not not even have a award for it. Just a stat. Industry Mean, Median per page, per word.
So errors pop out.
Something that has always confused with these complaints, is that we never see raw manuscripts, (and probably shouldnt ever) to what first submitted drafts is or how many drafts each manuscripts goes through. Though I think for some folks, any number given on the number of drafts, it wouldnt be enough. We cant conceptulize how much work was done from when it was first turned into, to what was released.
Something else that always confused me, is that errors that jump out to you readily, are assumed to be errors that jump out to everyone readily. Eg, 'if i spotted them, then they're ignoring them or arent placing effort into them'. Thats never made sense to me.
Error rate would be interesting to have stats on. That feels something that something like Ennie Awards could do. Wouldnt be a whole census of the rpg industry but it would be a lot of them. Not not even have a award for it. Just a stat. Industry Mean, Median per page, per word.
We have indeed started doing that whenever we update a PDF!
ProfGrizzlyJon
Cosmic Mongoose
Could you place it on the cover?
Let me look into that...
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
The indicia page would be more appropriate (and likely easier).
PeterDebney
Banded Mongoose
Passive-Aggressive insistence on the Oxford Comma: we are very alike.
Unfortunately my editor insisted on taking them all out unless they actually changed the meaning. I can only assume that he was trying to save on ink!
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