Throughout my career working for others, I have made their words say what my employers actually wanted to communicate. Sometimes that was easy. Sometimes, I needed to channel my inner Carnac the Magnificent to unravel the inner meaning of what was handed to me. In addition to corporate materials, including marketing copy and CEO speeches, I have edited website content, newsletter articles, personal communications, business plans, résumés, broadcast scripts, and even a book or two. OK, so I learned that editing books for others wasn’t really my jam, so I pretty much stuck with the business world. However, I was also a classroom teacher, and there is quite a bit of editing when teaching language arts!