When your canvas is twelve words, perfectionism gets forensic. For UX writers and copywriters sanding microcopy into dust: ship the button.
Posts TaggedIssue 05 Perfectionism & Over-Editing
The Cobbler’s Manuscript Has No Shoes (When Editors Write Books)
You edit for a living, which makes your own draft the most over-supervised manuscript alive. How professional editors get out of their own way.
Nobody Has Ever Missed The Word ‘Utilize’ (An Academic Word Diet)
Your research is rigorous. Your prose is wearing three overcoats. A cutting protocol for academics whose sentences qualify for their own DOI.
Your Ears Are A Better Editor Than Your Eyes (It’s Not Close)
Your eyes have read that chapter forty times and can no longer see it. Your ears have never heard it once. The read-aloud pass, weaponized.