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Send It When You’ve Thought Yourself Stupid

We get a lot of inquiries and questions about the writing and editing process from clients and colleagues. Which works GREAT for the people asking the questions, not so much for the rest of you who could probably use the answers. Occasionally, we’ll be posting our responses here in Ask Us Anything. It’s your chance to pick our minds – for free! 

One of our first and favorite clients is Taylor Pearson, best-selling author of the book The End of Jobs and his own site, TaylorPearson.me. Taylor writes brilliant essays (ok, we’re biased) and they take some serious thought and time on his part.

So he asked us early on: “How do I know when a draft is ready to be sent to the editor?”

My response was simple:

Send it when you’ve thought yourself stupid.

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