My wife’s latest writing collected in a blog post with links. She’s helped me at the paper by writing things that give people tips on how to be productive or contribute during the pandemic.
I started this blog in 2015. It’s 2020 now, and I haven’t written as much as I would have liked throughout the years. It’s not because I’ve not been inspired. I talk about and work with language every day. I’m working with some of the best and most inspiring writers of my editing career. I’ve worked hard to step up my editing game by studying, reading, writing. However, the most difficult thing is to edit my own work. As soon as I hit “post” or “publish”, I read over my written words and sigh, “Oh no. A typo.” Or I’m afraid something could be misinterpreted, and I immediately delete. It happens to many writers, aspiring and established. The fact that I know this doesn’t soothe my perfectionist nerves of putting a little piece of me out into the world. It’s this fear that has kept me from doing what was…
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