TEJ BABRA: SELF-TAUGHT EDITOR VS EDUCATED EDITOR

September 30, 2010, 03:29 PM

http://www.elskid.com/blog/tej-babra-self-taught-e...

Tej Babra, a regular and entertaining Twitter poster as well as being a very experienced editor recently posted a blog assessing the pluses and minuses of the self-taught editor vs the apprentice editor. Tej’s point is that experience is vital to editing, and he’s right. But how you gain that experience is up to you. For me, editing is an instinctive process, much like directing, but you need to school that instinct, give it a structure, give it a framework to be instinctive within...