A Fresh Look: The Editing Process
When you have been engulfed in a project for years like I have with "A Perfect Armenian", it's really cool to get an outsider's view of the story. In this case I am speaking of my editors.
Editors are like having a mechanic look at your ride and tell you what needs to be tweaked, fixed or removed. They see things from a whole other prospective and show you aspects that you may never have seen or may have forgotten about.
Editors are also like janitors (don't tell them I said that) as they go in and clean up your mess so that when the readers come in the next day, they can sail through without slipping on an illogical thought you left.
Editors are like jewelers who take your precious stone and evolve it into a precise gem.
That's what it is like when I meet with my editors. It's a blast.
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