By ChuckMcM
That was a good read, but there was a different mechanism at work for me. When I do something for free, and someone complains about it or finds it wanting, it does not bother me. Sort of like “Double your money back on Free Advice you don’t like.” But when I am being paid to provide the thing I am providing, a big sense of my wanting to make sure they are getting their value kicks in, and since I undervalue my time tremendously I try to over deliver on value. And that slows me down. Letting my editor have an early draft let her decide if there was sufficient value and on at least one occasion she took my column as written and said, “This is great, we’ll have proofs ready tomorrow.” Had I not sent the draft I would have spent at least another week writing and re-writing.
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