Experience bring three things: the unwillingness to suffer fools gladly, the tactfulness to handle them, and the willingness to admit that there are things which one does not know.
The last one of these is by very far the most important.
I’ve always believed it’s fundamental for a writer to not be ‘married’ to his text, but to be open to things which were either not obvious, not available, or even not explained well during crafting of the last draft.
My grandfather taught me that there are always things which I may learn from others; that I am never the final authority on anything.
I have always adhered to that.
One must keep an open mind, and I’ve found it best to keep within the framework of ‘I understood it to be this; please show me how I’m wrong here’. This makes it easy for your source to show you what you did wrong, without creating a tense situation (especially if you got it really wrong).
Being able to admit you can be wrong, and to be always open to that possibility, is for me, the mark of a good writer.
A true mark of a good writer is the ability to always learn; and to always, always go back willingly and fix the text to make it right for your clients.
Inexperience costs
Sure, you can get away with paying an entry-level person less, but you pay in other ways:
- Mistakes which cost time and money
- Lack of insight into common problems
- You’re paying them to learn on the job; meanwhile little gets done
- Inexperience often comes with ‘an attitude’
In short, you’re getting less than what you pay for.
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