I think this comment is a bit melodramatic. Janet’s writing voice here is different, and she made some specific mistakes, but it’s not the end of the world. Perhaps writing this post used a different part of her brain that is less integrated with the practice of writing. (I hope this is not offending, I find in myself that the part of my brain in charge of pulling information is not as good at describing it.) She can easily fix some specific things.
Dear reader, please give me your tolerance, patience and an open mind.
Addressing the reader directly is difficult to pull off properly. I can hunt down the post where someone else did this and find the comments about that. (..sorry, couldn’t find it) I think the problem is that it assumes too much intimacy, so it’s a reflexive thing for people to then want to be critical.
Now that you’ve written the post, a summary at the beginning and a little more organization (brief intermediate summaries and possibly bullet points) could bring it together and reduce the apparent choppiness. (Actually, unless you’ve edited it since I first read it, I just noticed that’s it’s very organized. There’s a couple introductory paragraph, a series of Q&A paragraphs, three processes described, then concluding paragraphs. Simply bolding the questions may be useful to highlight the organization.)
I don’t think you need to keep track of all your edits as long as they’re just stylistic. I like Morendil’s idea of the brief notice that you are working on editing the post.
I think this comment is a bit melodramatic. Janet’s writing voice here is different, and she made some specific mistakes, but it’s not the end of the world. Perhaps writing this post used a different part of her brain that is less integrated with the practice of writing. (I hope this is not offending, I find in myself that the part of my brain in charge of pulling information is not as good at describing it.) She can easily fix some specific things.
Addressing the reader directly is difficult to pull off properly. I can hunt down the post where someone else did this and find the comments about that. (..sorry, couldn’t find it) I think the problem is that it assumes too much intimacy, so it’s a reflexive thing for people to then want to be critical.
Now that you’ve written the post, a summary at the beginning and a little more organization (brief intermediate summaries and possibly bullet points) could bring it together and reduce the apparent choppiness. (Actually, unless you’ve edited it since I first read it, I just noticed that’s it’s very organized. There’s a couple introductory paragraph, a series of Q&A paragraphs, three processes described, then concluding paragraphs. Simply bolding the questions may be useful to highlight the organization.)
I don’t think you need to keep track of all your edits as long as they’re just stylistic. I like Morendil’s idea of the brief notice that you are working on editing the post.