This week in issue 29 of The Prosperous Writer, I blogged on the topic of being polite in our writing careers and what that might look and feel like.
I realize that folks’ definitions of being polite vary. I would not be surprised if they vary quite a bit. That’s what makes this such an interesting topic to blog about.
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Good topic! You never know where it may lead you. A few winters ago at a writer's conference I had a chance to offer a literary agent a ride to the train station. In the car we talked about the weather, the upcoming holidays, I was polite and did not dump my completed manuscript (I just happened to have a copy with me) in her lap, while she was captive in mycar. That agent now knows me, we started a relationship and I respected her boundaries. And yes, she is always on my list when I send out multiple query letters to agents!
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Excellent topic this week!
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Even better! I can “whitelist” the folks who often respond to the prompts. So your comments should appear automatically, even with links, after they have been approved once. 🙂
Being a Southern girl, I am always thrilled to see people encourage politeness. I blogged about it at http://writewithtlc.tlcooper.com/.
May I also add, being an editor, that writers and editors both need to respect each other's boundaries in commentary back and forth over editing changes, especially to fiction which lies close to the author's heart. Editors: don't be sarcastic in asking why the author continually makes the same errors; authors, don't be snide in your responses or argumentative to every suggested change.
Very nice work, Adair. 🙂
Thank YOU, Jan. I appreciate your support. 🙂
Thanks, Pat. Very inspirational!
Go, Lydia!
Thanks, TL. Hope to see you at the NAS this season. 🙂
Ooo, Kelly it makes me wince to even think of a writer being sarcastic to an editor. I wanted to kill a copywriter once. But guess what? In retrospect she made the final product so much better. It's okay to think it, to confide it to a trusted source, or just to vent privately to get it off your chest But writers should never take their frustrations out on their editors.