Journey vs. Arrival

If you’re curious, there are usually three thoughts I can always count on going through my mind when I’m editing a novel:

1) Man, I’m ready to be done with this thing and publish it already.

2) Man, unedited Taylor��is pretentious.

3) Man, this book sucks.

If this seems like a negative mentality, that’s because it is. Reading your own unpolished work can have that effect. Editing is essentially the practice of looking for things in your book that suck. Granted, it’s so you can take them out and m...