THE WRITER/EDITOR RELATIONSHIP: PATIENCE

How Writers Should Approach Editing

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THE WRITER/EDITOR RELATIONSHIP: PATIENCE

I’d say 85 percent of the clients I work with on book editing projects are filled with impatience. As a writer as well as a book editor, I of course understand this feeling perfectly. It makes sense. For the most part, developing writers approach me with a first or second, or even sometimes a memoir or novel they’ve worked on for years, and they have a specific plan for how they want that project to go.