Writers’ Coaching Corner (November 2021): Authors and Editors Working Together (PART II OF II)

Writers’ Coaching Corner
Written By Benjamin Vrbicek
“Good writing results when authors and editors work together for the benefit of readers.”

This month is the seventh installment of a new feature on the Gospel-Centered Discipleship website to coach writers. Each month I take one paragraph from a GCD article to highlight some aspect of what makes for good writing. I’ll point out what made the writing work so well and how we can incorporate more of that writerly goodness into our craft.

This month is PART II of a pervious conversation about the principle that good writing results when authors and editors work together for the benefit of readers.

I mention Carol Fisher Saller’s book The Subversive Copy Editor, Second Edition: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and . . . Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) and The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications.

You can watch all the Writers’ Coaching Corner videos here.

Benjamin Vrbicek

Benjamin Vrbicek is the lead pastor at Community Evangelical Free Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the managing editor for Gospel-Centered Discipleship. He and his wife, Brooke, have six children. He earned an M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary. Benjamin is the author of Don’t Just Send a Resume and Struggle Against Porn, and coauthor of Blogging for God’s Glory in a Clickbait World. He blogs regularly at Fan and Flame, and you can follow him on Twitter.

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