How does one even get into that? I thought about it but I had no idea where to even start. I'd love to be an editor.
I got an internship with a small publishing house near my university. Some houses offer unpaid internships where you serve as the 'first line of defense' against unsolicited manuscripts.
Do you get to write soul crushing response letters?
No, but I do get to write 1-2 page reports for the editors, recommending rejection or that the editor take a closer look. I take 15 or so minutes to write the report, and usually by the first 10 pages or so I know if its shit or not. I do love rejecting someone's life work. People pour their hearts into manuscripts and they all suck!
although if someone sends in a query (20 or so pages of a manuscript with a cover letter) I get to post them a pre-printed rejection postcard. It's awesome.
How does one even get into that? I thought about it but I had no idea where to even start. I'd love to be an editor.
I got an internship with a small publishing house near my university. Some houses offer unpaid internships where you serve as the 'first line of defense' against unsolicited manuscripts.
Do you get to write soul crushing response letters?
No, but I do get to write 1-2 page reports for the editors, recommending rejection or that the editor take a closer look. I take 15 or so minutes to write the report, and usually by the first 10 pages or so I know if its shit or not. I do love rejecting someone's life work. People pour their hearts into manuscripts and they all suck!
although if someone sends in a query (20 or so pages of a manuscript with a cover letter) I get to post them a pre-printed rejection postcard. It's awesome.
So your job is 10% paperwork and 90% schadenfreude?
How does one even get into that? I thought about it but I had no idea where to even start. I'd love to be an editor.
I got an internship with a small publishing house near my university. Some houses offer unpaid internships where you serve as the 'first line of defense' against unsolicited manuscripts.
Do you get to write soul crushing response letters?
There was actually an article about that in The Stranger a couple weeks ago.
I'm pretty sure it's just a C&P.
Dear Recipient,
Your novel was bad, and you should feel bad. At first it was difficult to imagine that the plodding pace of your 1000 page testament to human futility was merely the lesser of many evils, but soon your god-awful diction and the absolute absence of anything resembling normal English grammar or syntax convinced me that things would only get worse. By the end of your seemingly unending work, I had developed cataracts, some kind of super-migraine, and rectal cancer. I'm uncertain, but I think I may also have glaucoma. The doctors tell me I have only months to live, but I am glad. The sweet, sweet abyss of Death is the only succor I have in a world broken into pieces by your soul-crushingly terrible prose. Undoubtedly you are now wondering why I even bothered to send you this reply to your submission, given my impending demise. Allow me to inform you that an envelope was suggested to me as the best delivery system for a powdered form of weaponized smallpox. I have burned your manuscript. God willing, the disease will carry you off before you can complete another.
How does one even get into that? I thought about it but I had no idea where to even start. I'd love to be an editor.
I got an internship with a small publishing house near my university. Some houses offer unpaid internships where you serve as the 'first line of defense' against unsolicited manuscripts.
Do you get to write soul crushing response letters?
There was actually an article about that in The Stranger a couple weeks ago.
I'm pretty sure it's just a C&P.
it depends. if the editor is friends with the person or someone connected to the author, they will take a few minutes and make some comments. Nothing too in depth though. They may also verbally inform the agent. A lot of manuscripts are dealt with through an agent so the author wouldn't be sent one directly.
the interns do actually have access to several templates of rejection letters, which we fill in the necessary info (name of the author, name of the work, date and address), print it out, and then the editor will read the first 5 or so pages of the manuscript and then sign the rejection letter we printed. We usually do this for shitty manuscripts or stuff written by nobodies
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You are not understanding what I'm trying to express.
You're a stone cold bitch Eddy.
Keep on rocking in the free world.
Night chatters.
So your job is 10% paperwork and 90% schadenfreude?
Dear Recipient,
Your novel was bad, and you should feel bad. At first it was difficult to imagine that the plodding pace of your 1000 page testament to human futility was merely the lesser of many evils, but soon your god-awful diction and the absolute absence of anything resembling normal English grammar or syntax convinced me that things would only get worse. By the end of your seemingly unending work, I had developed cataracts, some kind of super-migraine, and rectal cancer. I'm uncertain, but I think I may also have glaucoma. The doctors tell me I have only months to live, but I am glad. The sweet, sweet abyss of Death is the only succor I have in a world broken into pieces by your soul-crushingly terrible prose. Undoubtedly you are now wondering why I even bothered to send you this reply to your submission, given my impending demise. Allow me to inform you that an envelope was suggested to me as the best delivery system for a powdered form of weaponized smallpox. I have burned your manuscript. God willing, the disease will carry you off before you can complete another.
Sincerely,
Casual Eddy.
Battle.net
it depends. if the editor is friends with the person or someone connected to the author, they will take a few minutes and make some comments. Nothing too in depth though. They may also verbally inform the agent. A lot of manuscripts are dealt with through an agent so the author wouldn't be sent one directly.
the interns do actually have access to several templates of rejection letters, which we fill in the necessary info (name of the author, name of the work, date and address), print it out, and then the editor will read the first 5 or so pages of the manuscript and then sign the rejection letter we printed. We usually do this for shitty manuscripts or stuff written by nobodies
You are not writing what you want to express OR do not realize the nature of what you want to express.
best movie ever!
I enjoy girls who are "one of the guys" as opposed to being "completely incapable of hanging out with my friends".
this actually seems really funny
I know it's Micheal Cera as sexless teenage boy but that's not all he plays
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Yes it is! :x
How about going on craigslist to find other possible desirable careers?