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I know, I know, this is all serious and scary and all, but Omios is really stealing the show (snort, snort, snort)!
It’s amazing how this scene is funny, dramatic, violent and tragic, all at the same time.
Briefly, I worked with an editor who hated this style of writing. She was the editor on the first 60 or so pages of A Distant Soil.
She claimed the comedy was inappropriate and cut it.
My experience is that there is always comedy in drama, and a life around military men and cops bears this out. A black sense of humor is a job requirement.
When Neil Gaiman kindly wrote an introduction to volume I of A Distant Soil, he made note of the fact that the writing style in the book changes markedly from the early pages. The strong disagreement I had with the first editor is a big reason for the change of tone in the writing. Though Neil knew nothing about it, he could see the style changes in the work.
Heavy edits were just one reason I had left my previous publisher, so to turn around and get another heavy handed editor is some irony for you! LOL!
I often wonder how the series would have benefited from the guidance of a real pro level editor like Joan Hilty. She is sharp.
That said, I had a very kind editor for awhile: Mary Grey. But I think her touch was too light. She should have knocked me around a bit! LOL!
I don’t mind an editor who has criticisms or disagrees with me. I just want an editor who is not working out their own writing ambitions on my work. And all the editors I had on ADS, with the exception of Mary Grey, were amateurs. I got the impression that they would have been happier just doing fanfic.
Unfortunately, there’s been no editor on ADS since the late 1980′s. Pretty much all I’ve had since then is a bit of proofreading.
Well, you can read this story, page by page, and it works. There’s a pay-off on every page.
Not many comics can pull that off today.
That’s extremely kind of you.
Reading back over my old work makes me wince a bit, but it is an interesting and unique experience to see a book page by page like this. Totally different than a “chunk of book” experience.
Plus you’re getting some of the audience reaction to the individual pages.
Truly, this page-by-page thing is very interesting — pausing to look more closely at the work and the story. Frankly, it’s an even more impressive achievement this way. So many little details you thought out and got onto the page!