Jane Friedman: The Relationship You Have With Your Editor Should Be Like the One You Have With Your Urologist

Jane Friedman: The Relationship You Have With Your Editor Should Be Like the One You Have With Your Urologist:

gwendabond:

janefriedman:

“I’ve worked as a magazine editor for 20 years and done some writing on the side, and I’d say that the relationship you have with your editor should be like the one you have with your urologist—you should feel comfortable showing him unspeakable, embarrassing things and trust that he will not recoil but endeavor straightforwardly and discreetly to help. (The writer-editor relationship should also have a confidentiality akin to attorney-client privilege or, perhaps more aptly, to that of the psychiatric couch.)” —Scott Stossel

Found this sitting in my drafts folder. Good stuff in that WSJ piece.

LOVE THIS. Wish I’d read it, oh say, two years ago.