On Becoming An Editor

Anal or analysis?

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I write for ILLUMINATION, but I’m also an editor here.

I submit my drafts to the editorial process, like any other writer. You know why?

Because no matter how much in love I am with my own writing, my nose has been pressed up tight against the words for the hours or days it took me to write the piece, and I cannot see the trees for the forest.