This is a completely imaginary conversation. No characters in the convo are based on real people – I’m just bored and imagining conversations I might have with editors…
Editor: You’re coming up with some great material for the ‘Extremes’ unit. I love the texts! I do have one issue though…
Me: Okay, which is…?
Editor: I think they need some tweaking
Me: you mean completely rewriting, right?
Editor: No… Yes.
Me: Okay. Which ones?
Editor: Well, there was this one about Mount Everest.
Me: you mean Mount Qomolangma, right? (more…)