When you think about it, editing is a pretty strange occupation. People spend weeks, months, years writing something that is important to them. From a nugget of an idea a book is formed. The author writes… sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s hard and occasionally it can be painful. Writing is cathartic, inspirational, enlightening, tough, terrifying…
Let me get one thing straight. There’s really no such thing as a bad book. Ok there is… but there’s usually (not always) something interesting hiding underneath the surface if time were spent on it and good advice given at the start. There are badly written books (which could have been put right by a…
* from your editor You’ve written your book, your article, your business brochure or your website. If you are lucky you have a publisher who can arrange an editor for you, if not you have to go out into the big wide world and find one for yourself. That’s daunting. However, there are many great…