On Tearing Things Apart

I’m working on editing my second book, Finding Daylight, which began life as a beast of a first draft. 89,000 words is not an easy figure to look at, especially when you take into account the sheer amount of rewriting that will occur between the first round of edits and the end. I don’t even want it to be 89,000 words, which means that I need to cut, and cut without flinching.

After about a month of restructuring and deleting whole sections of Finding Daylight without a care in the world as t...