I'm now over half way through editing the latest draft. I've done a better job of bringing the lead female character, Besat El-Reeh, to the fore. The rest is hard to tell. Fucking with any of it is kind of like handling melted chocolate. It's sticky, it's gloppy, it can make a mess quickly and for all to see, but if you get it right, it's delicious.
What I know if nothing else is, the next time I meet a published author the one question I want to ask him or her will be, "So, how much did you have to compromise to get published?" Never mind the understood follow up question, "And how does that make you feel?"
May there one day be a writer's version of the "editor's cut."
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