it's good

everyone should do it

i am learning that there is a certain hesitation to my writing that i want to kill and stop doing immediately lmao

Oh yeah, absolutely

I know people who are like "lol I could never deal with an editor" but having someone sit down and sincerely and thoroughly edit my stuff was both humbling and taught me a lot

YEAH and this is just my work writing so it's not even my creative stuff but i'm learning things that will go both ways

part of it is because even at work i never really had editors at my previous jobs because i got hired to build documentation where there was nothing so i was like

king of my own castle lol

and the people i was writing for were too disorganised (usually programmers) and they were just relieved not to have to do it themselves

this job has a whole pipeline of reviews and the other writers actually really know what they are doing so my boss left me like 110 comments and gently explained why

and then left me a slack message because i think she was like
"oh maybe i should soften why there's 100+ comments"

but i absolutely did not comb through the style guide on purpose

if i step on the rake once i will never forget

I got workshopped and 1. My biggest hater in the workshop was kind of right 2. Nobody else was

everyone else was kind of impressed but for the wrong reasons. I didn't like the hater's work because I thought it was sanctimonious, and it was, but he hated the thing I submitted because he thought it was edgy, and he was right.

I dropped that project because I ultimately thought it didn't have enough substance beyond the edge.

detectivefiction: i feel like that's what i've had happen at my other jobs
people were too nice/too impressed for the wrong reasons lol

it makes me want to find like a local creative writing group so i can like go through this process with my creative writing

I was like "... this deserved more pushback than it got. Ed could see the problems with it, everyone else either liked my prose and that kind of did smoke-and-mirrors on them, or they were too nice to say anything."

i feel like even going through that with something you ultimately scrap is valuable because you learn what you did right

this sounds stupid because i am a writer by trade but REALLY FINDING THE VALUE IN HAVING OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS
like the amount of feedback i've had in planning, drafting, etc. is like
amazing

earlier i was trying to come up with a concept for a character i have been stuck on for LEGIT YEARS and someone tossed in this very loose idea and then everything started falling into place

i will say that this has pinged my RSD VERY HARD so this process is taking me hours to go through this doc because i have to keep taking breaks but man it is an objectively better document now post-edits

[peon voice] WORK COMPLETE

the nice thing about this time zone business is i can drop a link in slack at night and when i wake up someone has done a review lol

i am basically taking tomorrow off because i worked so late tonight which is great because i got my jabs today and i'm kinda worn out now lmao

i had to speed run this part of the project for reasons so TECHNICALLY i don't have to touch it again until next week when my boss comes back for a final pass before I convert it to markdown so restorative weekend ahead i hope.....