Over-editing, a writers invisible enemy

Over-editing, a writers invisible enemy?

Over-editing, worse, perhaps, than the writer’s other well-fed demon: keeping hold of your ‘darlings’ and not editing enough.

On the days when confidence is low, it’s tempting to decide your work isn’t good enough. Perhaps if you just tweak ‘this’ or ‘that’ – or, in my case yesterday, move and rewrite a huge chunk from the middle of your novel and make it the opening three chapters.

Why? Because I’d decided the opening three chapters must be a problem....