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Novel Editing Update:

As of this morning, I am a little more than one-fourth of the way through the book. I have excised just under 3,300 words. That seems a little low, considering my goal is to get rid of a total of around 19,000; but I haven’t hit the longest chapters yet.

Editing, thus far, seems to be a combination of ruthlessness (“Must….cut….more….words!”) and annoyance (“My God, did I really write that?! Why would I ever write that?! It’s incomprehensible crap!”). Of course, it always seems this way when I’m editing my own short fiction, but the effect is startlingly magnified on a project of this scope.

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