Welcome back to Working Over Time, the advice focused clavinette to

Working Funkadelic. I'm your host, Isaac Butler.

And I'm your other host, Ronald Young Jr.

Isaac, what are we talking about today?

So we are going to talk about the Inner Editor slash Critic

and when that voice is useful versus when it's time to tell it to S the F you

This topic was suggested by our listener Bob who wrote in the following

So I used the Ken Rand 10% solution method of editing.

But I've noticed something that you might want to explore.

When I finish a creative work, then go into editor mode, and as the 10%

solution says attempt to murder 10% of whatever I wrote, I usually succeed. But when I'm done and the story is sent off I turn back to my idea

file and prepare for my next project and nothing. The creative engine is dead and I struggled to get it going. Editor Mode is hard to turn off and it usually takes a month or two before the creative part of my brain re-emerges.

This bothers me. I know that some of my favorite books were written on typewriters and

published with minimal editing and now in the age of word processors, grammar checkers, and endless

editing and tinkering. the job of editor has integrated with the author and at least for me it interferes with the writer part of me is this something people have talked about?

First off, Bob, thank you so much for writing in.

I have definitely had similar struggles myself.

Almost every creative person I know has.

Before we dive into the meat of this, Ronald, I know you're not doing like a ton of prose writing as a vocation, but is there a version of the switching between writer-brain and editor- brain in your creative work?

Absolutely.

You know, good podcasting, especially narrative

podcasting includes a lot of writing and editing.

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