One more lesson...
When your editor says: "I don't understand your genre" and then later yells at you for not researching enough about a fantasy world that doesn't even exist?
Demand a different editor. Save yourself the headache.
@PoliTees So very true. And it really shows in some of the things being put out for entertainment consumption today. Few are willing to take risks on "different", and then the "different" is mimicked excessively when those too scared to take that risk see that "different" is successful because it is...DIFFERENT!
@BabyToaster what I find ironic, those same people (not unlike your former editor)
They will often point/reference things that have worked in the past, not realizing they would have probably tried to stamp that out.
@BabyToaster to continue on this metaphor.
The rails they are placing in the dark tend to miss the real path, and may inadvertently drive you off a cliff.
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@PoliTees So true. Which is why I ignored this editor and denied all her edits before sending it back with a note of "Yeah, I'm leaving this as is. Thanks!"
Then I stopped writing for that house.
@BabyToaster btw, I'm not a writer. I am an artist from a former life, but industry destroyed me.
@PoliTees I'm so sorry to hear that. :(
@BabyToaster TY
It's okay now. I'm happier than ever. Just not creating for anyone else.
@BabyToaster it's so hard as a creative to be surrounded by those who are not. Those who are not try and control a narrative they are comfortable with.
A creative can see the road they drive in , in the dark. Others want to put up rails on the road that they themselves cannot see.