I do like editing and perhaps my&nbsp;early mistakes got me over the "life and death" hump that I saw ruin other editors. <br /><br />Perfection is a tough (actually an&nbsp;unachievable) concept. Nothing is ever perfect, if you look at it closely or long enough.<br /><br />Just saw a rerun of the movie Secretariat and checked his stats: he ran 21 races in 16 months AND LOST 5, starting with his first race. He's a legend for only 3 races.&nbsp;<br /><br />Back to editing, I had one editor totally freeze up. He knew what he had a lot to do but he didn't know what to do NEXT. Decision paralysis. Took a month of me telling him daily what to do and in what order.<br /><br />Had another editor blow the date on the cover of an annual report for MacDonald's Japan, a huge customer. He let March 3 slide by instead of March 31. He never edited again and shifted to HR. The real issue on that cover was the woman leaning into the driver's side window in the MacDonald's parking lot. Looked like a hooker.<br /><br />So, we all press on and keep writing, I guess.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />