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 …
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