Editing (zaibatsu), 03/12/2019
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It's a slow  process, at least for me, but  I'm enjoying the
results.

I've decided that I want to be a capitalist. Yes, this still
has to  do with writing and  editing; I want to  write for a
living.  In  the  end,  I  want  to  control  the  means  of
production (myself.)  It would  be wonderful  to also  be an
artist, but I'm not willing  to starve (or, more accurately,
I'm not willing to let my family starve.)

Editing is something  that I need to improve  at. However, I
think I need to improve in speed more than I need to improve
in quality, if I want to be a capitalist.

I've  been reading  quite  a bit  about self-publishing  vs.
using an agent  and publisher. I'm still not  decided on the
matter, but since I'm slow at  editing, I have time before I
need to decide.

You may have noticed, if you've read my phlogs, that I don't
edit my gopher content. I'm  generally quite lazy. There are
some gopher holes that I've read, that I'm certain have been
edited. They're closer to art than I am. I'm OK with that.

I  write  in  gopher  for   the  pure  enjoyment  of  it.  I
just  love  hammering  out thoughts,  reading  thoughts  and
being  corrected,  and  hammering out  more  thoughts.  It's
interconnected, and  in my mind, it's  not about perfection,
or even editing for mistakes. It's a conversation of sorts.

That's my excuse at least. In the real world, I realize that
I need to get better at editing.