‍I am Team Emily Wilson. Not because of fidelity or otherwise to Greek myths or history: that’s not my bag. Rather, I am annoyed about The Odyssey because it didn’t finish its arcs.

To quote myself in my forthcoming writing book…

Back in the day, as an editor, I was witness in varying degrees to various plagiarism cases. The thing about plagiarism accusations (real ones, not nonsense vexatious lawsuit ones) is, every damn time, over a period of weeks or months, they go like this…

This contract is asking for a definition of ‘Editor’, can you supply something? How about ‘irritable, tea drinking pedant’? I’ll put that in the boilerplate.

What editors do all day has been brilliantly summed up in this handy pie chart from Sarah Fletcher (www.sarahjhfletcher.com and @sjhfletcher).

I can’t better that, but it made me think of some of the other things that I have done as an editor aside from make tea and swear at Word.