The first thing a writer has to do is leave their ego at the door.
Most writers write with passion and passion doesn't always reflect good grammar or proper use of punctuation. I recently edited for the CEO of a large corporation. She was taken aback by my edits and questioned if she wanted someone cutting her writing up like I did. But, while she might be a great CEO, her grammar, word choices and sentence structure were lacking.
Most people, when writing with passion, give little thought to how their words are put together. The words spill out with feeling while grammar is laid aside. And that's ok. That's actually how it should be. We should write with passion.....then hire a good editor to make our points flow well and be cohesive.
We editors make your passion shine by clothing your writing in easy-to-read prose with good grammar and punctuation.
While it might hurt to have your writing edited, you're smart for getting it done.
Write well.
Write often.
Just write.
~Tricia
Great points! After completing my dissertation last year, I realized that I had to edit the passion out of it and just leave the facts. It was hard to do that, but necessary. There was a strong emotional attachment to the meaning that I put into the document initially. However, the emotional component needed to go, and it did.
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