“I cried when I read your edit…”

I don’t often blow my own trumpet but I did want to share this beautiful response from an editing client:

Hi Liliane,

I cried when I read your edit, it’s so freakin awesome! You’ve transformed a mess of ideas into something truly beautiful. I cannot thank you enough!

Please send me your invoice.

Ted

As you can imagine, that email made my day, week, month… It still warms my heart.

It was a pleasure, Ted!

Image courtesy Andrea Piacquadio and Pexels

(That image is supposed to suggest me celebrating, not Ted crying…)

And then I received this one from another editing client:

Liliane hi

I cannot express adequately my appreciation of your considerable time, experience and wisdom [ wisdom means who / what / how / why / when / where / comparison / reasoning / analyses ] – you do it all.

Thank you,

Sincerest regards,

Des

Thank you, Des. 🙏

I love to write, as you know, and helping others to fine-tune their work is a joy. Let me know if I can be of service to you. 

In other news, my latest Mastery Club Facilitator, Nicky Manning, is halfway through her second Mastery Club program. This lady is a real go-getter! A story about her is coming.

I’m moving into a fund-raising mode for the next stage of the development of my health musical – so stand by for more news, and if you’d like to support this work, please contact me! The next stage will be a play reading of the first draft. I am ‘interviewing’ composers at the moment.

I also last week taught my ‘Free Your Creative-Writing Voice’ class again for Learning Laneway, and guess what? All students kept their cameras ON and several interacted in the chat! After the mostly black screens and silent chat of my first class, this was much more fulfilling.

You’ve probably seen the breakdown of the world ‘Ass/u/me’? 

“Assuming makes an ass out of u and me”… 

Well, I had assumed that this organisation’s policy was for students to turn their cameras off if they wanted to, since that’s what I had experienced in my first class and in the sample class I attended before working with them. It turns out that management agrees with me about the importance of interaction and visual contact, and at the beginning of the next class they requesting that students keep their cameras on. 

That session was a joy to teach, as tutor, and much more fulfilling for the students as well, I’m sure.

What are you assuming?