Just land the plane, already.
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As revising goes, it’s so simple. Nothing much to carry in your head, not much by way of artistic issue. Just a press-your-butt-into-the-chair kind of job to do.
You set up a synchronized scroll, get the page widths right. Then all you have to do is roll to the next red mark, and accept or reject the edit. But there is something intensely and unavoidably personal at stake. An editor has the key to your sock drawer. She sees all, knows all. Consistency, Chicago style, agreement, continuity: all that is purely technical, semi-mechanical.
“CandlestickBut the higher value, and the deeper fright, comes in the comments:
What does this mean? I get the Star Wars reference, but I don’t know the second meaning.
A process you have chosen, engaged with, paid for. But can you bear it to the end, 350 pages more?
