Today I'm editing a manuscript that's too long and rambling.
It started off at 125,000 words. My goal in life is to get it down to AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE!!! by the time I get to the end.
Without, you know, making any "content" cuts.
How I love fun games. They're almost as great as checklists.
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Ugh. Editing a manuscript is my idea of torture. Mine, of course. Everyone else's? Well, I can whittle them down to size...but my own? No way?
I'm a big fan of control-X, myself. Cutting whole chunks is always satisfactory. But then, I actually enjoy editing my own manuscript.
I abhor trying to fill pages with new material.
I only slash at the creative outpourings of OTHER innocents (hence "editor"). I refuse to edit anything *I* write!!! You people are all much better than I am.
Oh, I'd slash away at other manuscripts if I had the chance. That sounds like a weird sort of fun.
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