Yes. You read that correctly. I have actually been editing my work. And it’s like exercising: when I’m doing it, I can’t remember why I’m so resistant to it. I’m still working on the fourth draft of Rini & Butler, and it’s a lot less about the content rather than having to reread the manuscript over and over. I’m pretty proud with Rini & Butler, and it’s one of my few works where what I’ve written is actually no bad right off the first draft, and so there’s not a lot of self-loathing whilst I’m rereading it. There’s the occasional grammatical mistake that I cringe at, but the technical side of the work is fairly well done. And that’s not me bragging, one of the previous edits was a line-edit. I know line-edits are really for polishing, but I had to take a break from general/structural editing, and so that’s how I did it. The work isn’t spotless of mistakes, but it’s pretty close.

And here’s your friendly reminder to edit. Even if you just glance at a paragraph … it might even rope you back into working on it.