I listen to a lot of music through the course of my days, and I certainly listen to a lot of it as I edit. I have specific songs and playlists and artists for certain editing tasks. What I listen to when I am reading is very different from what I listen to as I’m double-checking my work right before sending the manuscript back. I even have specific songs I listen to just for working on citations.
If I’ve done any editing over the years for you, rest assured that there’s a good chance I was listening to murder ballads and/or Nick Cave in the latter stages of editing.
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