One of my editing instructors, who had never made a book that wasn't supported by a grant, had this same bias. She looked right down her nose at genre, and it was inconceivable to her that anyone in her class would be contemplating a career in anything other than literary fiction or "serious" non-fiction. Where there are no jobs.
I don't know how she was as an editor, but she was not an especially good editing instructor, as she couldn't think through a process, or explain structure or method to save her soul.
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Date: 2009-04-21 11:15 am (UTC)I don't know how she was as an editor, but she was not an especially good editing instructor, as she couldn't think through a process, or explain structure or method to save her soul.