What Editors Really Mean

That pitch you just sent? It’s probably rubbish.

Henry Wismayer
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readJul 8, 2019

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Like thousands of other impoverished masochists, I make my living as a freelance writer.

One of the peculiar things this has imbued me with, other than an ability to remain undressed well into the afternoon, is a talent for interpreting the subtextual messages that underlie the editor’s necessarily pithy…

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Essays, features and assorted ramblings for over 80 publications, inc. NYT Magazine, WaPo, NYT, The Atlantic, WSJ, Nat Geo, and TIME: www.henry-wismayer.com.