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When Your Work Has Been Butchered
Here’s how you can restore it to an earlier version
It’s happened to many of us. Some of us were lucky enough to have it happen to more than once. I had one publication add another writer’s name and links to my submission with the other writer’s information directly below the image. Sure, have readers click that link and never come back to my piece. No problemo. I had another publication swap out my images (which by the way I spend at least as much time searching the internet for the “perfect” image as I do writing the piece, to begin with) only to insert unrelated to the topic images and too many of them. My essay ended up looking like a children’s picture pop-up book. Yet another publication (see why I self-publish so much now?) deleted three paragraphs from my submission, didn’t tell me, leave a PN, nothing.
#SAF
Once these came to my attention I pulled them from publication and removed myself as a writer. You get one shot at dicking me over and that’s it. So, how do you restore your masterpiece to its former glory?
