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SLO LIFE Jun/Jul 2017

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The secret to good editing is knowing what to cut and knowing what to keep. For<br />

JOHN P. LINDSAY and his wife, LESLIE WARD, elegantly honing raw materials down<br />

to their essence has become second nature. The couple had spent their long careers<br />

as editors at the Los Angeles Times, training their senses to capture rhetorical gems<br />

while reflexively discarding the “fluff,” those extra words that do not add to the story.<br />

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ELLIOTT JOHNSON<br />

JUN/JUL <strong>2017</strong> | <strong>SLO</strong> <strong>LIFE</strong> MAGAZINE | 49

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