Project 1- Editing for publication, book vs. web-site

The book seems to lean more on the coaching style as the website leaned more on the writing of a book. The website “Zen & the Art of Editing”, talk about a group of editors, as the book has more because there a paper. The book wants the editor to coach the writers in ways that the paper wants the story to come out. Like on page 57, “Each sentences is evaluated and a story’s deficiencies are explored… sprightly or serious, detailed or almost superficial”. The book, the one we are reading in class, wants it to be how the paper wants it, and the website wants the author to be the main focus. “Our job is to help the authors shine, not to step into the spotlight ourselves; to help them express their creative visions, not re-shape their books according to our own. Okay, we might argue a point forcefully if we feel that it's in the best interest of the book -- but it's the writer's name on the cover, not ours, and the writer has the final say”( http://windling.typepad.com/editing/on-editing.html, Terri Windling