Catching Whimsy: Navigating the Editorial Process

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Tune in to part two of this three week series where Bob and Kim are talking shop about the editorial process of publishing. Through the lens of Bob’s new devotional, Catching Whimsy, they discuss the importance of knowing when to seek feedback, how to find the right editor, and the value of crowdsourcing. The conversation also touches on the challenges of knowing when to stop revising so the writing project can continue to move forward. Connect with Bob: @bobgoff Connect with Kim: @kimberly.stuart.writes --- Order a copy of Catching Whimsy at catchingwhimsybook.com. Learn more about Writing Coaching with Bob and Kim: bobgoff.com/writing-coaching Come join Bob and Kim at the Oaks for a Writer’s Workshop. Wherever you are in the writing process they are ready to help you figure out your next steps! Visit bobgoff.com/events to learn more.

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0:00.0	Access more.
0:08.7	Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
0:11.3	We are with my friend Kimberly.
0:14.3	And Kim, did you go by Kim or Kimberly with people when they meet you?
0:18.1	Somebody calls me Robert.
0:19.6	That clearly is a sign they do not know me.
0:21.5	That's Kimberly for me. Oh, is that if somebody says Kimberly, we'd be like, oh.
0:25.3	Either I'm in trouble by my parents, especially if it's Kimberly and big trouble. Oh, yeah.
0:30.2	But people who know me. Yeah, yeah. So because I know you, I'll take license to continue to call you in the 15th year.
0:37.3	Kim. So we're here to talk
0:40.4	about a book some more. And for those aspiring authors that want to write, just a couple
0:47.7	waypoints. We've analogized that to the X at the shopping mall where you say you are here
0:53.3	in the process. So what do we want to talk
0:55.4	about today? So today, I'm super excited about this because we get a lot of questions about the
1:00.5	editorial process, which is a fancy way of saying, what happens when other people get involved
1:05.6	with what you're doing? Your new book Catching Whimsie, 365 individual pieces of writing.
1:13.3	That's a lot coming from you.
1:14.9	And at a certain point, then, you open the door and say to someone else, an editor,
1:20.1	why don't you take a look?
1:21.2	So I'd love for you to talk with our listeners about how do you know?
1:25.9	Sometimes we're up at the Oaks or chatting with people in our coaching
1:29.1	calls. And that's a big question. How do I know when I'm ready to ask somebody else to look at this?
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