The love of editing

Everyone knows "writing is re-writing," but only writers who have edited their works over and over and over to get them to a point of (their own) satisfaction know how much work that can be. Fortunately for me, I love both writing and re-writing (as well as "having written"). I find that the longer I write, as the decades fly by (!) I enjoy the process of "getting it right" more and more - finding the little things I missed the first 30 times through and adding or correcting them. So goes the process again. As much as I would love to have my new thriller out and available, it just isn't ready yet. So I edit on and look forward to the publish date and reader reactions. In the meantime, I will be editing the next one (or two or five). As Mr. Vonnegut said, "And so it goes."