Are You an Author, Editor, or Collector?

No doubt, these categories blur, but let’s put it this way:

• Authors generate

• Editors revise

• Collectors curate

Each mode is a kind of creation. The God of Genesis 1-3 is an author. But the God of the Flood story is an editor, as it were—creating through subtraction.

Collecting is distinct from both authoring and editing in that you are neither bringing forth …