Thursday, June 24, 2010

Editing at Small

A custom book is oftentimes an exercise in taking one author's content and reorganizing it to fit someone else's purposes.  A custom editor's most important skills, therefore, tend to be those she learned in Kindergarten.

Cutting and pasting:















Scribbling. . .
















. . . while, of course, staying within the lines.

And, to cheer me up when I'm tired of editing, my desk even has its own set of toys.















There you have it, folks.  College textbooks by toddlers.

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