Too Much Editing

Michael · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: Too Much Editing

Anyone who has read Adairos , please feel free to give me some feedback on this subject.

In retrospect, I think I may have taken a few too many liberties in editing this story, and this may be a practice that I should not repeat. For example, I modified the last sentence slightly to place emphasis on the fact that Adairos would love someone who was male after all, despite her hatred for the antagonist. This may have been unnecessary, since the story seems to emphasize it anyway in the context.

As I stated in the other thread here, I also changed "warrioress" to "warrior" or "Amazon warrior." I was thinking of the current trend to omit references to gender with respect to occupations or trades. For example, many women who act now prefer to be called "actors" instead of "actresses." This also might not have been necessary, for a number of reasons. For one, in a different society such emphasis might be commonplace. Chris' Azeiran is a fictional world of his creation, so he decides what terms his characters will use within their respective societies and cultures.

So, readers, what do you think?

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