[Nfb-editors] question about editing articles

[loristay]

I can definitely respond to that.
If the article is great but the spelling is lousy, fix the spelling and use the article.  If the subject is great, but the language is barely English (I've had that happen too), and if I really want the article, I rewrite it carefully, and let the author see the result.  If he approves, I use the article.  If he doesn't, well, that's never happened.  If I had dozens of equally good articles, all of which were well written, and grammatically correct, then the one that wasn't got returned to the writer with "This doesn't meet our needs."  
Does that help?
Lori Stayer
Editor, Slate & Style, 1982-2009

On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:05:49 PM, "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com> wrote:


Hello fellow editors,



I have a question for everyone. I know we all struggle to get submissions for our respective publications, but what do you do when a submission is so grammatically insane it would take extreme creative editing? Of the few submissions I receive, I find myself having to edit way more than I should. Is this a common problem for everyone, and how do you handle it?



Bridgit Pollpeter -NFBN