Editing Flail

It takes time to find your way into an edit–or at least it does me–and that “time” seems to be relative. Do I have a month until the story is due? It will take me two weeks to get past the flail. Do I have six months till deadline? It’ll take five months to get past the flail.

Okay, I don’t think I’ve ever flailed for five months. If it was that far out, I probably just meant to start and didn’t, wrote some notes and thought about it and didn’t put any actual work in, then picked it up two mo...