I thought that for today's Industry Life post, I would provide a bit of a rundown on my editorial process. Editing is one of my favourite things to do in the world (good thing I work in publishing); there's nothing I like more than looking at a manuscript and figuring out how to tease out the writer's voice in such a way as to tell the best story possible. Every editor has a different editorial process, just as every writer has a different writing process, so bear in mind my methods are not universal. I am fairly systematic when it comes to editing manuscripts, but while the process might be structured and organised, editing itself is not so easily codified or quantified into a rigid "how-to". Like any creative discipline, it requires a blend of intuition, inspiration, and plain, old-fashioned hard work. I am a visual-verbal person, so I tend to envision manuscripts not as words on a page, but story entities existing in a three-dimensional mindscape. (I know, I know; it sounds like mystic woo-woo nonsense, but WHATEVER. :) I am MAGIC!)