[Ipg-smz] A question for everyone, particularly Esther Schindler

[Mac McCarthy]

We had a copy editor at Infoworld, "Jill," who edited for space by deleting
the last sentence in a product review. Unfortunately, that sentence was the
punchline for a joke. When I complained, she simply replied, "I didn't
think it was funny."

Editing can be maddening.

Mac

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 3:58 PM Tom Geller <tom at tgeller.com> wrote:

> Oh, I have a good one about deleted ledes. (Getting deleded?)
>
> For my 2013 Lynda.com video course "Writing Articles" (
> https://www.linkedin.com/learning/writing-articles), I (of course) wrote
> a dummy article to study. Then in a video that shows how to construct an
> article, I say:
>
> "Then after everything else is done, go back and revisit that first
> paragraph to make it even stronger. One common trick is to simply delete
> that first sentence and then see if it's reads any better. A lot of
> writers, including me, need a sentence or two to get into the swing of
> things."
>
> Sounds good, right? Except that the producers said, "O.K., do that. Delete
> the first sentence." I... hadn't planned for that. Luckily, the piece still
> worked without it. I schooled myself!
>
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