Yuck
Editing is a pain in the ass.An example: I worked on a rewrite of a chapter for the last five days. This chapter has already gone through 10+ versions, but I needed to dig in and change a few things that are important to the story in later chapters.
It's like a home project.
You make one thing better and sharper, and then everything else nearby starts to look dingy. So you brighten up the surrounding area, too, and before you know it the knock-on effect means you now have 15 versions of the chapter and you're still not quite done.
I know I have to do this, because once you put in this much work, it has to be right, but some days it feels like pulling a loose thread on a sweater and suddenly you're just staring at a huge pile of thread.
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