This week I have encountered two dramatically different reactions from writers being edited.
One response, from a young woman writing a difficult magazine piece, oozed professionalism. Whatever she felt inside, it didn’t leak out. She completed the required revisions in 24 hours and sent them back with a cheery note.
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I’m working on a project now that is sprawling and global. I will be working on it when I am 90. This is a project requiring different editors at different stages. And this is when editors remind me of hairdressers.
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Years ago, on our honeymoon, we shared a cab with a couple of hairdressers from Boston. The cabbie didn’t understand their instructions to Trelawny Beach Resort.
My daughter was a little bit outraged the first time she discovered that I am sometimes hired to write things for people and my name may never appear in the published work. Their name does!
He makes me nervous. I was due to interview Dr. J.I. Packer, renowned theologian, best-selling author, wordsmith extraordinare in two hours when he called me to pleasantly request a brief postponement.
Another hour for me to sweat bullets, sip more tea and worry.
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