poopy algebra and writing

So last week at Camp Lipizzan I was taught a lesson by Sherwood Smith on how much the details matter in editing. Sherwood did a line by line critique of a manuscript for a number of pages to show how different it would sound if all she did was take out repetition and work at making the narrative move forward more quickly. I was amazed at the change. I tend to think of editing as larger scale concerns. Of course, I am happy to do smaller scale editing because it is much easier, but I ten...