I’ve turned down clients who weren’t ready for editing yet.
I’ve worked with clients who weren’t as ready for editing as they should have been.
And I’ve worked with clients who went through all of the work (and expense) of editing only to realize that publishing wasn’t really something they wanted to do.
So how do you know you’re ready for an editor?
A pantser is someone who doesn't outline. You sit down to write without any outlining, barely knowing your own characters and the world they live in.
I used to be a pantser; and that's a perfectly acceptable way to write. I remember the boxed in feeling that an outline used to give me and, wow, I would avoid that at all costs!
Does that sound like you?
And if that's how you feel about outlining, how scary is it that when we rewrite, we should rewrite every single word? (Except the ones we take out, of course!) But go over every last thing to perfect it? Yikes!
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