WRITING AND EDITING
Two Occasions When An Editor Improved My Story
— and why I want you to submit to Brammarly so we can do the same for you
Have you ever had a sentence in your story that you were absolutely in love with, only to find out that your editor wouldn’t publish your story because of it?
I have.
Why I’m impossible to miss on Medium
I’m the chatty Indian dentist with a viral article or two, a reader who leaves thoughtful responses, highlights her favorites, and always claps 50 times for stories she loves because she loves them!
That is how you might know me.
However, I wasn’t always the mighty Mediumer you all know and (hopefully)love.
Roopa gets cut down to size
Back in 2020 and very new to Medium, I wrote a sentence in a story that got me negative feedback from my editor.
I wrote, “Little girls love Disney-themed birthday cakes.”
My editor at the time, a writer from Australia, sent me a * private note about that sentence.
He said, “You cannot claim to know the preferences of all the little girls in the world and if they…
