Cut the Icky!

On my twitter stream this morning, someone compared writing a novel to giving birth, painful but exhilarating. Editing, according to this tweet, is the clean up after giving birth. Not fun, but necessary.

Cue my completely inappropriate brain, envisioning a masked surgeon standing over a table with a marker going “no, no, that finger is totally ridiculous, we’ll have to put something else there.”

I’m not calling anyone wrong. Maybe some people do edit just by taking out the trash, but that’s no...