Yeah - Tom Clancy doesn't strike me as the "clerk answering phones" type.

I'll bet he has (d) staff.

Box - You make an awful lot of assumptions for someone with so little time logged in on the board. We're a pretty friendly place, with a lot of really awesome people who like to be NICE to one another!

Perhaps you should take a little time and get a feel for the place?

This is a message board attached to Jim's site, and as I understand it, iago and the other mods have been doing the work they do here on pretty much a volunteer basis, in fact, absorbing expenses out of pocket. I could be wrong, of course, I'm not sure. At any rate, it's not like Iago's going to retire on what he's making here.

And I'd have to say, if you stick around and take a good look, this message board is definitely driven by the fans. (In mmost cases, right into the gutter, but dfriven, nonetheless.)

Oh, and in iago's defense, your opinion may be valid, but your delivery definitely smacked of bitter bitching, too, as does this one.  You might want to work on that. I have no idea if you truly are a pompous, arrogant, snide snark in real life, but it's definitely how you're coming across on "paper" to me.  

WHOO - HOOO! GOT ONE.... reels it in!

Heh - I just told someone he's smarter than his avatar looks and came up with an ad for Pacifica University, Graduate degrees in Psychology and Mythology studies!

I love it!

Interesting.... just this last week at my writer's group one of the leaders said something to the effect of keep in mind, the publishing business is a BUSINESS and publishers are looking for books that will SELL.

Not that I think either perspective is "right" neurovore. But I think the smart writer will keep a blending of both perspectives in mind in producing something created from the soul that will make a profit.

I don't do a hard copy edit because printing 200 pages of manuscript on my dinky printer is expensive.  The first way I edited was to have two windows up on my computer, one with the first draft, and another blank one to type on.  Now I've figured out MS Word's Track Changes and Review features (version 2007), and I love it.  Whatever I delete gets crossed out in red so I can mark that I'm cutting it, but retain the material if I want it.  Whatever I add get added in red, so I know what I've added.  And I can put comment balloons on the side if I feel like I need to rewrite a section later.  It's a better system than what I had and I've gotten through this revision faster and felt more confident in what I've written.

OOOO... you are my editing God.... I liiiiiiike!... where do I learn the ways of the Word Track??

Seriously -  I usually print out short runs of 2 - 20 pages in hard copy... there's just something about my eyes that can see a typo on paper, that disregards the same on screen..

But something someone else said too, made good sense... I have a Toshiba Portege, and I do have the capacity to red pen on screen... why haven't I thought of doing that in the past??

s'pose the ads are more important. For your cross sampling needs, I personally visit this site nearly day and have been to the "main" site twice since.... April??