Pretentious Title: Editing for People Who Hate Editing

Author Rachel Aaron has recently posted a great piece about how she came to love the editing process over on her blog. It comes at just the right time for me, as I'm finally about to start editing book one of Twin Stars. Good advice any writer should check out, especially a novelist.

When you write a first draft, you are writing a story. You're telling your character's tale, spinning your adventure, whatever. When you start to edit a novel, you're no longer just telling a story, you're...