Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by jandrese on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:21PM
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The missing piece of this article is where his writing was going to end up. Was he writing for Readers Digest? The New Yorker? A trade paperback? I feel like the editorial process would be considerably different based on the who is publishing the work and the intended audience.
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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by f1shy on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:35PM
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I must agree. The most important thing for a writer would be the audience: "For whom am I writing" It may be very well the case, what he was writing was not correct for the audience targeted by the editorial.
The generalisation "americans" is twofold wrong: first, I do not think that the whole US editorial market is exactly the same. Pretty sure there is place for pornographic writing. But second, especially coming from a writer, he should say "northamerican". May sound pedantic, but we are talking about people influential in cultural scene.
Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by manuel_w on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:36PM
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> I must agree. The most important thing for a writer would be the audience: "For whom am I writing" It may be very well the case, what he was writing was not correct for the audience targeted by the editorial.
Yeah but why is it "not correct" for the targeted audience? According to the author, prudishness.
Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by ghufran_syed on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:35PM
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The first example is the following magazine: https://www.nplusonemag.com/
“n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics published three times yearly
The second example is the english translation of his novel: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374720889/thewomenilove