EDITNG — I MEAN, EDITING
STATUS: Totally digging all the holiday music that you can listen to, nonstop, through Pandora.com.
FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: This headline about the Blagojevich senate-appointment scandal. Makes it sound like aliens were involved.
I have a good friend who is facing some tough edits right now. And I speak from experience when I say editing is no easy endeavor. Writing is an artistic expression of sorts. It’s hard to hear someone say “change this” or “shorten that” or whatever manner of direction they give you, because writing comes from that personal place that all good art comes from. Plus, after working on a manuscript for months and months, it’s hard to take a breath and plunge back into revisions. Sometimes the material is just too…close.
I took this picture yesterday to summarize how even the best editor’s notes can feel overwhelming sometimes. God help the writer who actually gets this kind of direction. Thank goodness it’s not that bad for my friend — or for me. At least not yet anyway.
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