The First Duty of a Manuscript Critique Why candor matters and what you can expect from your editor if your manuscript isn't very good
[by Ross Browne]
The first thing I’d put on the table in connection with how we handle very flawed manuscripts can, I hope, go without saying. And that’s that we never want to be discouraging to an author. There’s no pleasure in telling a writer that a manuscript needs deep rewriting rather than editing or that its […]