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Couples Therapy: Advice for Authors and Editors (opens the original)
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I have worked with many clients over the years who come to me with what they feel is a rare and shameful problem: they don’t get along with their editor. First, let me give my own shameful truth. My gut instinct whenever I hear this from an author is to think it takes two. This bias, formed by the us-and-them culture in corporate publishing and a couple of difficult experiences when I was starting out, is conditioned to see authors as nearly always the problem. Obviously this is not the case — i
Notes Made After Tripping (opens the original)
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When was the last time you fell?I went on a run today in the woods behind the house. Because of the caffeine I ran fast, and — possibly also because of the caffeine — I tripped. I experienced it in slow motion, a disinterested observer; a dissociative miracle.Here is what my observer self saw:Toe, catching on root,Feet — left-right — slowing the fall,Hands, reaching,A slight roll to the side,And I’m down.I laugh, I get up, I continue running.</spa
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