What An Edit Feels Like #Writerslife

It feels like a sucker punch to solar plexus. It hurts. You've got this moment of trying to figure out how you're going to react, trying to judge how badly you're hurt and whether or not you should cry. That's how edits feel.
Sound overly dramatic? Maybe.
I wish I could say you mature as a writer. I don't really know. I think some of it's just experience--you know you've survived this before, it's not the end of the world, you are the master of your made up universe, you can do this. But I don'...