after deserting me for a few days
my editor has a change of heart
and decides to return.
Yay! I say to myself.
Says he’s been reading my posts, and how I’ve been floundering without him.
You’ve pulled three posts in two days, he says. You’re sinking.
I know, I say, hanging my head in shame.
Look, he says. It’s no good fighting it. We’re a team. Conjoined twins if you like.
Like Laurel and Hardy? I suggest.
He smiles.
Same arrangement? I say.
Yes, he says. You write. I clean up the mess.
John Malone 
Hello there. Have you seen the movie Stan And Ollie? It came out a year or two ago. I liked it a lot.
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I have , Neil. Two or three times. I thought they’re the perfect duo to represent the two sides of me, the writer and the editor. Sadly, though, I don’t know if anyone under fifty know who they are, do you think? so this post may be lost on them 😦
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Yeah, it would be interesting to know what % of people under 50 know Laurel and Hardy. Hopefully there are more than we would think.
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Lucky you! I m under 40 and I know both of them! So, you have an inner editor…my job requires me to edit everything as I go. It is difficult to write with that inner editor always awake. 🙂
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Lol 🙂 so true; it’s a balance, isn’t it? without that inner editor we either write too much or digress too often; with an inner editor we keep, perhaps, too close a watch on what we say, not to offend political correctness, for one
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Barring my last post, my focus is always upon keeping my post very short. In my job, we design instructions. Say:
“In case of fire:
*Go down the stairs.
*Walk briskly in a line.
*Do not run.
*Converge at the muster point.”
We are all Scrooge when it comes to words.
It shows in my earlier posts: 200 characters was my upper limit. 20-30 words
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I will run a straw pole amongst young people I come across and see how many blank stares I get 🙂
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