Invisible wrote:
> not good at deciding what order to explain stuff in. 

When you know a whole bunch about a subject, that can happen. It just takes 
practice. And writing an outline first.

If you want to get good at this, write a page-long lesson on anything you 
like, twice a week, starting with an outline. In a few weeks, you should be 
able to finish the whole essay in 20 minutes. Show it to someone else each 
time, and ask where it was confusing.  In six months, you'll be able to sit 
down and whip out an essay that's comprehensible on pretty much any topic 
you know about (and not unlikely a whole bunch you know nothing about) in 
half an hour.

> Having somebody else review it helps. They're the ones who point out 
> that you've neglected to explain something because it's just so utterly 
> obvious to you that you forgot somebody else wouldn't necessarily know 
> this.

Yep. Very important.

> I haven't had the pleasure of working with a professional editor yet.

That's what a good high school is for. ;-)

> Yeah. Logically, there must be books and courses and things somewhere 
> which explain how to do this properly. 

I would think you learn by sitting with other professional sound engineers. 
I wouldn't think "sound engineer" is something you could read about.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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