The Storyteller, The Writer, and The Editor
A peek into the life of an editor.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl, named Sophie. A seven-year-old girl with red long curled hair and light brown freckles on her face. Sophie takes her notebook and her favourite glitter pen. She started writing her thoughts.
“I am sad. My mom just told me I may not that big beautiful doll from the store.”, she wrote in her diary.
She puts her diary in the drawer when her mother comes into her room.
“What are you doing?”, asked her mother Francis.
“Writing in my diary.”, Sophie replied.
“I want you to come downstairs. Dinner is ready.”, Sophie’s mother replied.
“I’ll be on my way. One moment, please.”, Sophie said with a sad voice.
Her mother went downstairs
Comment editor: Hi, thanks for submitting your story. I loved it very much. I have seen the last sentence without a point. Is that what you mean? If so, could you fix that? If not, would you like to make an end to the story, please? Thank you.
Comment writer: Thank you for your advice. I’ll work on that. Thanks again.
Published 23 August 2020 Not that I am aware of that, but you have to be that writer who want the big picture in life. Because you have tio grow your business. When you grow big, more customers you have. The more readers, and money.
Comment editor: Hi, I have seen some grammatical errors in your article. Could you fix them? Second, I don’t understand where this article leads to, and for which audience this article is for. Maybe you can add a little more about it. And one more thing: as of September 1st we only publish drafts. See our new guidelines.
Comment writer: Hey, I didn’t know about the new guidelines. Maybe you should be more clear about that. I haven’t seen it and I follow you all they long. And for the record, I am a good prolific writer, so you can not say you don’t understand. Then you haven’t read it well. Sorry for that. Yeah, well, fine…
Comment editor: Well, I have read your article clear, and I have found grammatical errors. Also, we have announced the new guidelines in our daily bulletins and in other ways. So, we are very clear about that. I appreciate if you could fix the errors. We want our writers to be on their best performance.
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Comment editor: I have seen some grammar issues. I highly recommend using Grammarly. Could you fix that, please? Perhaps you also could add some relevant articles you based your story on, so your readers know that it is fact-checked.
Comment writer: Thanks for the grammar issues. But I have fact-checked everything I said in my story. So, don’t say that I don’t know my stuff.
Comment editor: As I have said, maybe you could add science-based articles so you have proved that it is worth looking into added sugar. Readers might think you didn’t look it up. So, please consider this advice.
Comment writer: You don’t dare to say I am not a good writer. I am damn a well-known journalist in my country.
She ran out of the blue through the door, and I couldn’t say anything before she asjked for disvorce. So, I didn’t know what to do. I still love her so much. I don’t know what I did wrong. Every time I think about it, I think of her beautiful smile, how she walks, and how she is in bed. I am the most caring man in the world, I did everything she asked me to do. What does she wants what with someone else what I don’t have? Now I am thinking about it, and writing about it, I have been abused by her. But you know what? I don’t give a damn about her anymore.
(For this example I used the photo from freestocks on Unsplash)
Comment editor: Hi, I have seen some grammar errors. Could you fix them, please? I see you haven’t captioned your photo. Could you fix that, please? If this photo is yours, then ‘photo by author’ will do. If it is not yours, please caption the right photographer, please. Photo’s from Unsplash, Pexels, or Pexabay are great sources for photographs.
Comment writer: I have got this photo from the internet with a free licence to use. I Googled it, and it was fine to use. Then I added my own quotes, so yeah, this is my photo.
Comment editor: First of all, you mentioned that you used this photo from Google with a free licence and then added your quote, but the photograph is not yours, so please add the photographer.
Comment writer: Look, I know you are doing your job, but you get paid for giving me sh*t advice where you don’t know anything about. I added the quotes, and the picture I took from the internet, so this is mine.
Comment of the second editor: Sir, I know you are in a difficult time at the moment, but we are editors who are volunteering in editing stories here. It would be great if you have a better attitude towards our editors.
I have been out in nature, walking with my family. I loved it and I thought I needed it today, to get back at writing. You probably think: ‘It is Sunday, get over it!’. Yeah, maybe you’re right, but still, I want your feed filled with stories I loved writing about and you love (I hope) to read. During my walk, I saw a caterpillar, yellow with red (the caterpillar-picture in this story), and I loved this one. And I am curious in which butterfly this one will change. I am not such an animal expert.
Comment editor: Hi, it looks like this article is not yours. Please provide the name of the real author. It is not fair to the author you took his work. He worked hard for this. Plagiarism is not tolerated. Check for Medium’s guidelines.
Comment writer: You accuse me that I have stolen this work? This is not stolen. I wrote it myself. You are really nuts. I don’t tolerate it that you accuse me of stealing someone else’s work.
Comment editor: Well, I have seen this work earlier, and I have put your story through a plagiarism checker, and it says that your work has been stolen.
Comment writer: Then your plagiarism checker is not good. This is my work. I won’t delete it.
