Post #4 – Women’s Memoirs, Editors on Editing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
[Kendra and I are the Co-Coordinators for Story Circle Network’s Editorial Service that gives you easy access to a team of professional editors. These editors are attuned to the stories women write — memoirs as well as memoir vignettes. Your manuscript deserves respect…the best treatment…and an editor who understands you. That’s why SCN Editorial Service exists. When you’re ready for an editor, we’re ready for you.
Kim Pearson is one of these professional editors and she’s sharing some of her insights with you about the process of editing. Earlier today, she posted on Story Circle Network’s Telling HerStories blog about Editing = Respect.]
Editing Means — Respect Your Art
Kim Pearson
I am sometimes asked to speak to writers about the importance of editing. Because I don’t like to preach (or be preached to) I simply tell this true story from my past. It doesn’t even mention writing or editing. It’s about art, and it says it all.
My high school art teacher, Mr. J, was an irascible sort who never sugar-coated his praise or his criticism. He didn’t like me. This was unusual because all my teachers had always liked me. I was a straight-A student and always turned my homework in on time. This was not because I was a brown nose. It was because I found homework – all schoolwork – very easy.
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