Freelance Writing and Editing Services

Introduction: When I was a kid, I learned how to program computers—on those old Apple machines with the green monitors—from a teacher who made us trace out what a program did, line by line, loop by loop… on paper. By hand. Sometimes he wouldn't let us use the computer until we had gone through the program out like that beforehand. We had to learn that because a computer will only do exactly what you tell it to do. And often, what you think you're telling it to do is not what you're actually telling it to do. At all. Not that you realize that. So I guess one reason my work as an editor is different is that long, long ago, I often had to spend hours and hours on frustrating drudge-work to discover that if only I had put an equals sign or a pair of parentheses in a slightly different place, everything would have been just fine.