(#11) are you a genius? 🥑

I’m a sucker for personal categorization.

I’m an Enneagram 1, which means I have the potential to be incredibly annoying whenever I think you’re wrong.

(It also means I love nitpicking manuscripts, which is what I get paid to do as an editor!)

So when my wife told me about the Working Genius model, I was intrigued.

It’s designed for individuals and teams in working environments—which includes all of us bookish folk—to understand not only their own strengths and weaknesses but how those aspects function within a larger body.

If you’re interested, take a gander—the test is $25 but this overview is free dollars and no cents.

My two Working Geniuses (aka, strengths) are Wonder and Innovation.

Wonder is the gift for pondering possibility. Innovation is the gift for creating ideas and solutions.

And this helps explain the way I edit manuscripts.

Every story is a possibility space, and as an editor, I don’t want to come in and snap your plot prose into alignment with my own style.

I want to see your work realized to its fullest potential.

I want to engage that sense of wonder.

Whether it’s solving character issues in developmental edits or tweaking phrasing for maximum impact in line edits, every comment or suggestion is an opportunity to bring a new story to life.

Does that sound hokey? Probably. It feels true, though.

When you or another author you know is ready to enter that possibility space, I’m offering 10% off line editing or copyediting packages for this April or May.

Send this to an author you know…

Or dive in yourself.

Got questions about right writing rites? Reply to this email with your query; I might include it in a future Bite.

Thanks for reading Avocado Bites!

^{Avocado Bites is a publication of Avocado Tree Press, LLC, that helps you revise your stories one bite at a time. We love working with indie and traditionally published authors on fiction manuscripts—and if that’s you, welcome to our target audience.}

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