Thank you for naming this Andi. In my head I've got a direction, and even though I post fortnightly, I think about how my next few posts will move in that direction and take my readers on that journey with me. This is very different to when I first started blogging years ago, so it must be an awareness I developed over time. What a great skill to have.
As a fellow editor, thank you for writing this!! Feels like 50% of my job is explaining that editing is not self-flagellation or shuffling commas around but a meaningful part of writing and building a content ecosystem/body of work.
Very nice post. I edit at work during the day and write my own stuff at night. The former is all-encompassing, and your point about structure is critical, while the latter is put your head down and produce some words to work with. Might be too much of an oversimplification, but it's helped me keep them separate but together.
Thank you for naming this Andi. In my head I've got a direction, and even though I post fortnightly, I think about how my next few posts will move in that direction and take my readers on that journey with me. This is very different to when I first started blogging years ago, so it must be an awareness I developed over time. What a great skill to have.
This is so lovely to read, Florence!
As a fellow editor, thank you for writing this!! Feels like 50% of my job is explaining that editing is not self-flagellation or shuffling commas around but a meaningful part of writing and building a content ecosystem/body of work.
This high level thinking stuff is my fav part :)
Very nice post. I edit at work during the day and write my own stuff at night. The former is all-encompassing, and your point about structure is critical, while the latter is put your head down and produce some words to work with. Might be too much of an oversimplification, but it's helped me keep them separate but together.