Of all the things an editor can do, though, missing the joke or pun bothers me most.
Here's a sentence from one of my manuscripts:
"She had been one-third of our inseparable trio back then--The Three Mousseketeers because of the way we'd worn our hair--but she'd gone her own way since then and we hardly ever saw her."Here's the published version:
"She had been one-third of our inseparable trio back then--The Three Mouseketeers because of the way we'd worn our hair--but she'd gone her own way since then and we hardly ever saw her."What's most frustrating is that the pun should be self-explanatory, but I explained it anyhow --"because of the way we'd worn our hair"--and the editor still didn't get it.
Sigh.
Maybe I'm only funny in my own mind.
2 comments:
Almost as bad as one of my stories where the female drove off into the sunset down the interstate and a number of editors that it was a suicide and refused to publish the story.
Does make one wonder.
I drove into a sunset once. Totaled my car. I was lucky to get out alive.
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