On Editing

Editing is a tricky beast. Right now, I’m looking through the galleys for Part of Your World, for Fairytales Slashed 5 (announced last week). I’ve edited this story a (fitting) FIVE times now: when I first wrote it, before I submitted it to Less Than Three, when I integrated the editor’s suggestions, when I went through the galley proofs before the serial went live, and now.

Want to know how many errors I’ve caught so far?

Twenty-two in just sixty pages! Good grief.

Now, some of these are merely...