“You mean it still isn’t right?”
First comes the draft, then the revisions. See, I’m a rewriter—I like working this way—so once the novel is finished I go over and over and over the manuscript.
Does the sequence of events make sense?
What have I left out?
Have I edited sparkling excitement into literary pabulum?
Is this even fun anymore?
Gad, ANOTHER typo?
Around and around and around. The Edit Spin-Cycle.
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