Editing Capers

It’s incredibly humbling when you read back through your first draft and realise just how truly craptacular some of your initial writing was.The only otherprocess that brings you face to face with your flawed- humanity-as-a-writer (apart from editing your own second draft) is the first time you send the project out for critique partners to give feedback on. Then you get questions like, “Why has this character inexlicably changed clothes (or gender?)?”, “Didn’t this character die two chapters...