Conceptual Edits for Jacob Westberry

Key Takeaways:

Positioning myself as someone who might someday come across Westberry’s piece, I included comments inquiring about the scope of his intended reach regarding audience and goals for a reader’s takeaway. I encouraged him to lean into the idea of nostalgia more; inherent to the project’s purpose, the concept would situate me better as a reader to understand the purpose of his piece with a bit more elaboration. Further, nostalgia is a human experience; expounding on the idea had the potential to broaden the path for the audience who could come across the piece.

Even though I am not terribly knowledgeable about metamodernism or the vaporwave aesthetic, I was still able to offer meaningful conceptual edits toward Westberry’s webtext proposal. As an editor, it is necessary to consider what might cause you to be interested in a piece and what about it could draw you in from your own lived experiences. Using those ideas, an editor can help the writer strengthen their concept.

Conceptual edits for Jacob Westberry’s webtext proposal