Cutting, culling, eliminating

Reading around, I found this: - Maxwell Perkins found a structure for Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward, Angel” by cutting it a full sixty five thousand words -

- what made Raymond Carver’s minimalist stories memorable is that his editor, Gordon Lish cut them to the linguistic bone. -

So, don't cringe too much when your editor cuts your—hmm, hmm—"marvelous..." prose. She's doing you a favor.

Sometimes we indulge too much, but the reader just want to know "what's next..." And readers are not indulgent.