Letters to the Editor
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nice article
I used to work for a daily newspaper and I fondly recall some of the letters and copy I was called upon to edit. There was the guy who sent ten page letters to the editor handwritten on yellow legal paper with different parts of the newspaper cut out and pasted on his letter, with little black arrows all over the place to indicate in which order his points were being made. There were the politicians who sent election thank you letters that were carbon copies of the ones they'd sent years ago - it was up to me to change the dates. People sent stuff on Post-Its. And did they care that I had to slave away and decipher this stuff and whip it into semi-coherent shape?
Of course not! They just got mad at all the stuff that got omitted.
I had to admit doing editing gave me a new perspective. If I publish a book later in life, I will have a lot easier time quieting my ego and accepting criticism. Hopefully.