This Is the Story of an Editor

There is a part of me in every writer I publish.

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There is a part of me in every writer I publish. At least things are said. It’s rough around the edges, but sometimes it’s good not to beat around the bush for three hours. Forgive me if I’ve shocked you.

I don’t have an explanation for why I wrote this story. Maybe it’s because I finally decided to invest in an excellent desk chair after more than fifteen years of suffering from back pain on a cheap crappy thing, and am therefore in excellent condition to enjoy my two favorite activities of the past few years: publishing writers, and writing.

Anyway, today I wanted to bare my soul about the way I run Scribe and work with writers, even if the word “work” is a bit disproportionate. But then again, I take everything so seriously here that it’s like work.

I run Scribe a bit like a publishing house

Since Scribe’s inception over five years ago, I have always viewed the publication as a publishing house of which I am the editor, in the sense that I select the writers and texts I choose to publish with the utmost care.

Perhaps you can understand why I wrote earlier that there is a part of me in every writer I publish. I could never, and probably never will be able…