{"id":9349,"date":"2020-07-15T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=9349"},"modified":"2020-06-26T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T19:14:28","slug":"inverse-editor-author-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2020\/07\/15\/inverse-editor-author-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverse Editor-Author Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New authors have fairly weak power. Editors can exert their power to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. streamline the story such that it flows more smoothly<\/li>
  2. cut out dense detailed descriptions that take the reader from the story<\/li>
  3. their experience at what it takes to make a book become a bestseller gives them authority<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The trick is when the author becomes a proven bestseller, the editor becomes weaker. You can look at the books in a series like Game of Thrones and see how the editor became weaker as the book lengths ballooned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. A Game of Thrones 726 pages <\/li>
    2. A Clash of Kings  761 pages <\/li>
    3. A Storm of Swords  973 pages <\/li>
    4. A Feast for Crows + A Dance with Dragons 1761 pages<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Tom Clancy follows this model as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      New authors have fairly weak power. Editors can exert their power to: streamline the story such that it flows more smoothly cut out dense detailed descriptions that take the reader from the story their experience at what it takes to make a book become a bestseller gives them authority The trick is when the author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[3447,1136,2612,94,3536,527,3495,3537],"class_list":["post-9349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-a-song-of-ice-and-fire","tag-author","tag-authority","tag-books","tag-editor","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-power","tag-tom-clancy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2qN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}