Why editing is NOT about being ‘a bit OCD’

We explore the term ‘OCD’ and why it has no place as a marker of attention to detail for the professional editor.

Listen to find out more about

• The difference between character traits of orderliness and the lived experience of OCD
• What is OCD and how does it affect people?
• Why OCD is a noun and what that means for how we use the term
• How OCD might manifest
• How flippant and colloquial references to OCD diminish lived experience
• Intention versus perception of harm
• Editing text: querying rather than prescribing problems and solutions
• Does fiction offer more scope for use of harmful language?
• Alternative words and phrases
• Helping clients create engaging rather than distracting messages

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Music credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/