From the friendly caves of Pixie Hollow.
Short and sweet today.
There are five things editors want from you when you engage them:
- Clarity.
- how many words or pages is the thing you're wanting edited
- the background context: Why you've created it and what your intention is
- Audience.
- Who is it?
- Why these people (or person)?
- Budget.
- how much do you want to spend?
- how much can you spend?
- know the difference!
- Timing.
- what's your imagined deadline?
- why does this deadline exist?
- what's going to happen if your job takes longer?
- Acceptance.
Ok so that's 10+.
An editor's edits are never hard-and-fast rules. They are only always suggestions.
If you choose not to accept the suggestion, then that's entirely up to you. Just understand your own reasons for not accepting it and move on.
This last part is something that in-house "approvers" rarely understand.
They pick up their red pens, licking their lips in anticipation.
Crossing out words gives them the deep, fulfilling satisfaction of pretending to be your year five teacher (or pick whichever teacher was the most gruelling assessor of your writing. We all have one!).
That's not editing.
That's intervening.
The difference it makes to your workflow is immense. An intervener takes many more days (sometimes weeks!) longer to edit a document than an editor does. An editor does the job and moves on.
Kinda the way a professional house cleaner will smash your cleaning in an hour where it takes you all damned day.
So if you want this type of level-up on your workflow, reply to this email. I'll gift you a free assessment of your workflow as part of your consultation, and the job itself for just $80/hr (plus GST for Aussies. Sorry mates.).
xx Leticia "preferred to outsmart the teachers" Mooney
Please let me know what I can do for you.
Leticia Mooney is a consultant with decades of experience writing with and for people like you. Her company Brutal Pixie casts the the kind of spells your customers love. It consults to businesses in content strategy, content writing, ghostwriting, content operations, communication strategy, audits, investigations, training and coaching. Leticia is also the mother of an intelligent, engaging, and curious boy, who is named after a character created by J.R.R Tolkien. You can learn more about
her at
https://biodagar.com/about, and her business at
https://brutalpixie.com.
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