"Honor the author's voice" does
NOT mean "Don't change anything."

It means: Pay attention to how the author uses words, to their choices, to their style. Make suggestions in the spirit of their voice. If they tend toward simple vocabulary, so should you. If they prefer not to use contractions in narrative, so should you.

It does NOT mean you can't help by changing up sentence structure or length. Show the author how that strengthens their readability.

It works.

#AmEditing

Here are 9 of my favorite people!

#StarTrek
#StarTrekTNG
#SciFi

Photograph by Andy Gotts

All that time spent watching #StarTrek and wondering what they were doing pushing all those buttons on their consoles.

Now I know they are mostly entering their password and 2 factor authentication codes.

Start of a long weekend. First, disconnect from the world to recharge batteries for 2023. Do what you love to do: try new recipes, weed plants, paint, read books . . . anything to release tension. Make this #holidaybreak a ‘no-knocking-on-my-door’ kind of days.

#amreading #bookstagram

Winter solstice at Newgrange, Ireland. Dating from c. 3,200 BC, its central passage is illuminated by sunlight on the morning of the the shortest day of the year. Light pierces the world of darkness, prefiguring the return of life in spring. #WinterSolstice

📷Ken Williams

Apparently there are people out there who think it's inappropriate to use Mastodon to talk about books you've written or promote projects you've worked on because it's marketing and self-promotion?

I am not one of those people. I implore you to write about the work you have done and the things you have made - I want to hear about that stuff!