The 10% Solution to Editing Your Books

Yesterday, I was doing a bit of research on editing as it's a dragon I will soon need to face with pen in hand. While looking for tips I came across references to a book on self editing called The 10% Solution by Ken Rand. Intrigued, I began to look into it and soon found that the secret to the book really can be summed up by the title.

Simply put, his technique is simply to take what you've written and cut out 10% of it.

Now, there's more to it than that, and he apparently goes into fair...