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The time inbetween
The time between; when not much appears to be happening at all, waiting, still. It’s a space of deep creativity and inspiration. It’s these liminal spaces where I often find mine. For me they are walks, travelling, the time between arriving and starting. They can be rich, safe and difficult to leave. They can also be full of fear, exposure and vulnerability. Often its easier to squeeze in more jobs, to fill them with doing. Then they are lost.
It doesn’t have to be right
When someone writes a book, they are thought of as an authority on that subject. It is not a coincidence that writers of books are called authors! For many of my clients the thought of being dubbed an expert is terrifying, even if they do have a ton of knowledge and years of experience. What if they are wrong? The thing is that is okay, here is why.
Why is editing so hard to explain?
When I tell people that I’m an editor, there is often an awkward silence as they think about how they should reply. After all, Isn’t spotting and correcting typos a redundant job? We have all seen typos in the books we’ve read; and for many years now word processing software displays red lines underneath misspelled words or blue lines under ugly phrasing.
