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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Jobs that mess up your writing
- Message-ID: <84060@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 14:36:54 GMT
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- The job that stunted my writing more than any other was chief copy
- editor of a magazine. Every time I sat down to actually write
- something, I froze up. Each sentence had to be grammatically
- correct, punctuation perfect, spelling flawless. That's no way
- to write, not at the first-draft stage. I just couldn't turn the
- copy editor off at night when I wanted to write. I couldn't even
- turn it off when I sat down to read a book, article, whatever.
- It's a great job for losing friends, too: "Shouldn't that be
- _more than_ six items, not _over_ six items?"
-
- --Lauren
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