I went out and met with my editor at Holt, Rinehart this morning, to pick up copies of the writing guidelines and grade levels on the stories I’m supposed to be re-telling. The textbook I’m to work on is meant for tenth-grade students who need remedial work in reading and literature, so I’ll be aiming at sixth-to-eighth grade reading levels, and stories no more than 1,500 words in length, which is going to present a real challenge for the one selection that’s 9,800 words to begin with!
And I was pleasantly astonished when the editor told me that I would be paid on the basis of the original selection’s length, not on the length of my finished work. That means instead of being paid $60 to $75 per accepted story, I’ll get anything from $35 to $500, and that’s a lot better-sounding for my wallet.
So now I’m going to go away and start reading the first of the seventeen(!) stories she assigned me, to see where and what I can simply cut out before I begin trying to re-write.
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