Comments on: 10 ways to appear shockingly smart to any editor https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/ & Gray-Grant Communications Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6471 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:08:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6471 In reply to Brandon.

Indeed!

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6470 Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:08:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6470 In reply to Krithika Rangarajan.

Getting the word count makes a HUGE difference!

]]> By: Krithika Rangarajan https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6290 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 02:11:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6290 Question: how can I write for you? 😛 lol

LOVE – thanks Daphne! I ALWAYS ask my client about the necessary word count – it just helps – lol

]]> By: Charli Mills https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6289 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:04:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6289 In reply to Daphne Gray-Grant.

Oh, how frustrating! Writers could get away with that 20 years ago, but in today’s competitive marketplace for freelancers, following directives can give a writer an advantage.

]]> By: Brandon https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6288 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:08:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6288 Really good advice. I second the need to meet deadlines, since I’ve been an editor too. If you can’t rely on a writer, you don’t use them.

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6286 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:32:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6286 In reply to Tom Brown.

I’ve always LOVED deadlines. I think I was born this way. (Maybe I have horns?!)

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6284 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:30:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6284 In reply to Felicity Pearson.

You can be a writer on your own terms when you’re writing for yourself. If someone else is paying you, you need to be a writer on THEIR terms.

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6285 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:30:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6285 In reply to Elizabeth H. Cottrell.

Thanks for your kind words, Elizabeth.

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6283 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:29:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6283 In reply to Charli Mills.

Some writers really seem to resent following direction. When I was a senior editor at a daily newspaper I always asked everyone in my department to use very basic vocabulary. One reporter refused to do that and said to me (as though he were being really smart), “I like to send every reader to the dictionary at least once.” ARGH.

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/win-over-editors/#comment-6282 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:27:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=13549#comment-6282 In reply to Harry Herskovitz.

You’re welcome, Harry! You make an excellent point about the value and importance of feeling good about yourself.

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