Learning how to edit your own work properly is worth every homicidal—or suicidal—moment. Learning how to critique someone else’s work can be both educational and wonderfully therapeutic because it shows you you’re not alone— neither in your mistakes nor in your desire to rip someone’s head off for pointing them out. Bless their hearts.
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Revisions, and revisions, and revisions
Creep in this draft of mine from day to day
Till the last syllable and final spell-check’s done.
Now all my manuscripts sit like weighted tools
Upon my dusty desk. Out, out, brief respite!
Editing’s like shooting shadows, a task unending
That eats your life and spits the bones upon the page
And then returns for more. [...]
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