The Upside of Copy-Edits

I think that I like my books most at the copy-editing stage.

By this time I am through the agony of working through the beginning, a process which may involve several false starts as well as the general feeling of pushing forward through sludge. I have gotten through the peaks and valleys of doubt and loathing (from doubt to loathing and back to doubt, doubt being the peak of this cycle), and enjoyed my own enthusiasm and exhaustion at finishing, even though the end of the first draft simply ...