Ten Reasons to Edit

Congratulations! That messy business of writing your first draft manuscript is over. At last you can pour yourself a drink, put your feet up, and bask in the knowledge that there’s only one job left to do. Edit the damn thing.

“Why bother?” I hear you cry. “Writing is all about, well, writing. Right?”

Wrong. Of all the tasks a writer undertakes, editing is probably the most important. There are many reasons for this. Here are just ten of them.

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