PrOfiLe PeEp

Introvert and extrovert is how I often describe myself. Sounds weird, but true! Isn’t it a bit extreme? I can spend multiple hours meeting friends, but I can also sit daylong holding my best friend---my pen. Yeah, I am a writer. I am an editor, too.

There’s this claim that some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. Hearing this just makes me shrug my shoulders. Being a writer always endow me the freedom to pen down whatever I think and feel, and being an editor makes me perfect the writings technically. As a writer-editor, it’s a must to make a piece free from errors, which is the editor’s part, while retaining the degree of emotion, which is the writer’s side. Editors have an intricate eye for word usage that usually limits the feelings to be conveyed. Oh,doing both at a time is really an uphill battle. But the drive within me is oozing. Passion dictates me. I can do nothing but follow. I am grateful to be one and I take pride in it!   

Here's my daily dose of inspiration from Arthur Plotnik. 


“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.” 
     
Contemplating on this attests that absolute writing and editing can be both achieved!