Recently I had this email exchange with an editor who was going through a story I wrote. Overall the edits he suggested were great, and I’m happy with the way the story ended up. But at one point he mentioned that the narrator (an adolescent boy) describes another character’s “wall-eye.” He wrote: Character can’t really have a wall-eye. Is walleyed. I wrote back:...
May 20, 2014
Funny, not-funny
20May