Editing

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Okay. Um Rick Hogan was our editor-in-chief and he was awesome old school printed out red ink you know like symbols and like I got to look these up. Right right Three dumb three lines under the thing. What is that again or whatever? Um and for as the first time I've ever worked with someone who really read the piece really really understood the piece really spent time thinking about it and worked hard to make it better and the edits did make it better. I was skeptical I will tell you ahead of time maybe that's my overconfidence in my own skills or something but I was like what is an editor going to do? That's how I felt and this like small little me thinking like what is an editor going to do? And um he really woke me up to being like oh this editor can really make this piece way way better. And my Ink editors were

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the same. They didn't edit the piece in the same way but we talked through the things. I find that it's easier to talk through improving writing than it is to look at another draft. So when when I would submit a piece for Ink they wouldn't come back with a revised version. We'd hop on the phone and talk. Oh wow. And that helped me I I like the conversation about writing more than like looking at another version of it. It just doesn't really do it for me. So I like I like the all of the depth that comes with language verbal language and the conversation and the follow-ups and that what do you mean by that? Why do you think that's better? You can never get to that in like a draft that someone presents to you. You just get the final result. Then you have to ask like why this why that? I prefer just to talk it out all the way.

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working with an editor was great. I will say when I write my articles I don't share them with anybody ahead of time. I don't ask for feedback on them. I just put them out there and I'll edit usually as I go. Sometimes I'll do a final read and you know even if there's a spelling error I just sometimes publish it and then like I fix it later. I don't I'm okay with that. Cuz it's not printed so I kind of feel like it's sort of okay even though probably isn't in a sense. Since I write like I speak if I make a mistake in a sentence like when I'm speaking I don't go back. I mean sometimes I will like oh I meant to say that but usually you just kind of keep going. And I'm sort of okay with that. Like what is it about writing it down that makes it have to be more perfect than saying it out loud? Uh it's basically like saying it out