Off topic, but good
Editors - those who help edit a piece of writing - are unappreciated. But here is an article giving them the praise that is their due.
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Part of the reason I don't post more often is that I don't think about doing it enough. Shame on me.
But I think there's another, subconscious reason: I have an inflated sense of the effort required to write something, and because of the perceived effort, I don't instinctively lean towards making the investment of time required to write a blog entry.
For several years I was an analyst at Forrester Research. While there, I learned that writing is a hard job, and good writing is rare. We strived to write well, with tight, efficient communications that had a consistent voice. Having a good editor — and being a good editor — was a key element of the process.
Blog writers, myself included, don't normally have an editor or editing step. So I have this natural internal feeling that whatever I write in a blog entry won't be “up to snuff.&rdquo. The Salon article above doesn't do anything to make me feel any more inclined to blog more often, but it does help lots of people understand that good writing is hard, that good editing makes things better, and that the blogosphere doesn't have the benefit of editors. I wish I the benefit of one. I'd feel happier about what I write here.