Planning has never been my strong suit. In my personal life that’s not such a big deal. As an editor, it’s something I really have to work at.I’ve been doing this long enough to have the tools, resources and confidence to pull things together last-minute when necessary, but it’s a terrible way to operate. It’s more stressful, and the final product sometimes suffers.In the publishing world we move from one deadline to the next. It’s easy to get caught up in the cycle, ignore everything but the next deadline and get stuck in triage mode, always focusing on the most
