Editing Hurts.

I’ve said it, let’s all stop pretending editing doesn’t hurt. It hurts because I’m someone who writes and writes and writes and then has to tear chunks of story, plot-line and characterisation out. Wow it hurts, like chopping away at yourself bit by bit with a potato peeler.

Stephen King says he’s a “putter-inner” as in he always has more to add. I wish I was, I’m a taker-outer. I’m also someone who is self critical and paranoid so I’ll write something one day and a few weeks later when readin...