Back in June, our volunteer coordinator, Ivonne B. Ward, emailed the Guild’s discussion list with a link that resonated with her: a blog post by John McIntyre titled “The accidental editor.” The main point of the post was summed up with the sentence "No child grows up wanting to be an editor.” Ivonne agreed, as far as her own unpredictable career path went, and asked the discussion list, “Did you always know you wanted to edit/be an editor?”

Since this conversation was extremely popular, and a number of the responses compelling, we thought we would reprint a few highlights here on the blog (with the permissions of their authors, of course) and share a couple of additional thoughts on the subject.