You don't have to name them, Simian. By their words they may be googled.
I think that editors ought to actually engage with any criticisms or observations of their polices. I'm sorry your letter, which makes a lot of good points regarding tools that writers use, received such a response.
Since posting this, I’ve had a few responses that made me sit with my own motives. Was I speaking truth, or just poking the system to see if it flinched? Probably both. And maybe that’s the heart of this question too: where does principled protest end, and ego begin? I’m still working that out.
You don't have to name them, Simian. By their words they may be googled.
I think that editors ought to actually engage with any criticisms or observations of their polices. I'm sorry your letter, which makes a lot of good points regarding tools that writers use, received such a response.
Cheers, Victor. You nailed it. It was never about naming names, just questioning the line between method and meaning.
Some policies read like commandments. But commandments don’t make great literature.
—Simian
Since posting this, I’ve had a few responses that made me sit with my own motives. Was I speaking truth, or just poking the system to see if it flinched? Probably both. And maybe that’s the heart of this question too: where does principled protest end, and ego begin? I’m still working that out.