1. You must love books, reading and thinking.
In Teacher Fan's words, what is the reason why people who don't like reading and books love publishing? Publishing is hard and trivial, and it doesn't make much money. People who don't like books won't stay long when they come. Comrade Chen Yuan, another old publisher, even said that editors love reading and books, not just general love, but generally speaking, they must read a lot.
The study of editors is different from that of universities. University is a formal discipline study, and editing study is horizontal, extensive and complicated, because you are faced with experts in various fields and disciplines, the choice of various ideological trends, and the observation and thinking of various social phenomena. You don't have the depth of an expert, but if your knowledge is wide enough, you can provide more thinking from several angles when communicating with the author, so it may be helpful and enlightening to the author. Hunting involves a wide range, loves to think, and can use his knowledge and information flexibly.
2. Must have a strong professional sensitivity.
At that time, Fan Yong often held newspapers, documents or books: "Hurry up, this topic, this topic, hurry up, let's talk to this author." At that time, Six Chapters of Cadre School, Letters from Fu Lei, Random Thoughts, Defending Humanism and Translation of Cultural Life all came from this road, and many books also came from this road. Because he keeps reading, pays attention to the development of the whole ideology and culture, and pays attention to the changes in all aspects of society, there is always a string in his mind. When he encounters a problem, he will immediately inspire his editorial inspiration-this is an editor's professional sensitivity, which will not be relaxed or weakened because of going off work, eating and meeting friends, but this string may be triggered under any circumstances. Of course, this is also related to experience.
3. A sense of responsibility for work
The particularity of editing work determines that they work under relatively independent conditions. Responsibility requires editors to strive for perfection in the whole work, and every specific problem, every detail and every choice should be taken seriously. In the process of editing, there is a question of self-control, whether to do more or less, whether to do it quickly or slowly, whether to do it carefully or coarsely, whether to do your best or perfunctory, whether to do it perfectly or enough. Among them, self-demand embodies the consciousness and performance of prudence and independence. An excellent editor does not work under the supervision of others, nor does he work under the constraints of systems and rules. Prudence and independence are their moral principles.
4. Treat the moral heart of the work
Regardless of the author's position, prestige, expressive force and attitude towards editors, editors should take the manuscript as the basis of their work and aim at reaching the standard. The relationship between the editor and the author revolves around the manuscript, which is the moral requirement in the working relationship. Therefore, editors should respect, be friendly, considerate, encourage authors and give weighty opinions. Actions that are not directly related to manuscript editing should be avoided.
5. Edit your own creativity
Editing is the work of promoting and cultivating new works. This determines that the edited works must be new, creative and even cutting-edge. A basic requirement for editing all kinds of works should be "newness", and the existence and value of works lies in "newness". Without creativity, the meaning of "new" does not exist. Therefore, we must put forward creative requirements for editors.
6. Have five senses
One is information consciousness, that is, the consciousness of information acquisition, filtering, analysis and use. It is useless to get useful information without knowing how to use it, and it can't produce benefits. Second, the consciousness of topic planning, always pay attention to, always pay attention to, no matter when and where, be conscientious, combine your own editing work at any time, and generate inspiration for topic planning at any time. Third, the consciousness of marketization or management should start from the market, plan topics, analyze reading trends, understand the market and deal with the market. Fourth, advance consciousness, that is, editors should have a hunch or foresight, foresee ahead and lead the reading trend. Fifth, innovation consciousness can not only innovate the topic of new market, but also create the old topic of new soul.
Extended data:
Editorial introduction
Editing is a job category and a professional identity. Refers to a compilation of works, etc. The person engaged in this work is called "Editor" or "revision" in Chinese, and editing belongs to a profession, and the corresponding English vocabulary is editor. The main person in charge of the editor is the editor-in-chief or editor-in-chief (editor-in-chief). A comprehensive discipline that studies the basic theory of editing, the law of editing activities and the management of editing practice belongs to the category of humanities. Editing is the central link of modern publishing.
Chinese name: editor
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Employers: publishing houses, magazines, online media, etc.
Work: typesetting and perfecting works.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Edit