Hmmm...

[graculus]

I thought it was common practice for US zine editors to insist on US spelling in zines for US fandoms?

It disturbs me a little to discover that the edits I've recently received for an impending zine in such a fandom make comments about other things but the many z-less words haven't been picked up at all...

Maybe I've just been spoiled by the good editors I've worked with?

E.T.A. - it's a moot point anyway, since I've decided to pull the story. If it hadn't been sitting around for the best part of 2 years I might feel differently, but there you go...

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[katyabaturinsky.livejournal.com]

Maybe I've just been spoiled by the good editors I've worked with?

Sounds like that might be the case. I would certainly want someone to go over my writing with a fine-toothed comb looking for those Americanizations if I were writing in Pros, for instance. And it's the idiosyncratic subtleties that go beyond the "-z-" and "-our" spellings that would most concern me, really; it's easy enough to catch the occasional "gotten/got" or "while/whilst" slip-up, but the turns of phrase are so very different that I'd really need help with those. So if they're not giving you the help to which you've become accustomed, it seems to me that you were right to pull it.

So does that mean you'll be putting it up online? ::hint, hint::

(And yes, I do recognize my unbelievable cheek in pushing for more fic when I haven't written in what seems like a decade. Do as I say, not as I do. *g*)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

It's not a fandom you read, dearie. Besides, I thought you were drowning in Atlantis at the moment? ;)

[katyabaturinsky.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am, I am -- it's really terrible to behold.

Ah, I see, more of that western fandom of yours. Tragic, but I shall survive. ;(

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yep. Sorry about that. Though I do have a fic in the new Relative Secrecy out in a couple of weeks, which also means other stuff timing out. ;)