In July 2013, I served as the “editor-in-residence” for the Codex Writing Group, which meant basically I was asking a month-long AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) interview. With Codex’s permission, I’m re-posting the Q&As here on my blog. The questions were all provided by members of Codex.

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Are there aspects of stories that you find easy to fix? Clearly, an amazing story arc with grammatical errors is worth accepting as it will take no time to fix it up. But what types of problems are worth a rewrite request as opposed to just moving on?

I think for me, it’s usually something character related. Like the plot and world building is there, and grabbed me, but then there’s something about the character that doesn’t quite work, but I really liked the other elements and so it seems like something that can be saved. I’m not sure how often that’s the case, though; it’s pretty hard to generalize about something like that.

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