Tim "The longer I'm in this game the more I realize that quantity ≠ quality," moaned Sue, combing her close-clipped nails through short gelled hair, taking care neither to stain her Dior neckerchief nor smear her Holland Cooper tweed jacket. "Doesn't it depend on context though, on what your criteria are, or do you just mean poor writing skills?" said Tim, eir sperm-donating partner. "It's a bunch of stuff," said Sue, "such as reliance on tedious tropes, purple prose, not checking spelling or grammar, being utterly unaware of filters and redundancies ... and all the bloody rest." "Talking about a specific project?" "These people seem to think it's OK to type whatever comes into their heads then send it in as if it's worthy of serious consideration," she complained. "It wears me down." "But surely the work of a commissioning editor fundamental...
