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Cleaning Up My Act
Oct. 14th, 2007 11:12 amShiny Issue 1 - second version
http://shinymag.blogspot.com/2007/10/shiny-issue-1-second-version.html
Twelfth Planet Press are happy to announce the release of a cleaned up version of "The Sun People" for those who felt the use of some offensive language in Shiny Issue 1 prevented them from purchasing the issue.
Scratches head. I have to say this is a first for me. Also vaguely embarrassing as I'm generally not a profane individual and as anyone who reads my stuff will know, the stories vary a lot depending on what they are. There may not be any swearing for a period-piece but there will be in something that includes truckers, desperate individuals and people getting along as best they can in a killing climate! I don't at all blame![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girliejones for this; she didn't expect the US reaction either. If she had, she would have asked me to edit the story before it was published. It had, I can attest, one of the more thorough edits I've ever done thanks to the Shiny Eds.
Given this, though, I would recommend to the Shiny Eds that something be added to the guidelines to the effect that writers should keep in mind the YA audience and parental sensibilities blah blah.
Editing for the clean-up version was interesting. I typed in the swear-word and tracked it through the story, then altered the phrase. This netted four fucks, four hells, one shit-all, one shit, one God and a partridge in a pear tree...
http://shinymag.blogspot.com/2007/10/shiny-issue-1-second-version.html
Twelfth Planet Press are happy to announce the release of a cleaned up version of "The Sun People" for those who felt the use of some offensive language in Shiny Issue 1 prevented them from purchasing the issue.
Scratches head. I have to say this is a first for me. Also vaguely embarrassing as I'm generally not a profane individual and as anyone who reads my stuff will know, the stories vary a lot depending on what they are. There may not be any swearing for a period-piece but there will be in something that includes truckers, desperate individuals and people getting along as best they can in a killing climate! I don't at all blame
girliejones for this; she didn't expect the US reaction either. If she had, she would have asked me to edit the story before it was published. It had, I can attest, one of the more thorough edits I've ever done thanks to the Shiny Eds.Given this, though, I would recommend to the Shiny Eds that something be added to the guidelines to the effect that writers should keep in mind the YA audience and parental sensibilities blah blah.
Editing for the clean-up version was interesting. I typed in the swear-word and tracked it through the story, then altered the phrase. This netted four fucks, four hells, one shit-all, one shit, one God and a partridge in a pear tree...
