From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:41:27 +0100, Jacey Bedford   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Basically I do what my editor suggests - she's very   
   > experienced and makes suggestions, not demands. With the   
   > first book that has added wordage because she largely   
   > wanted more in-depth world building and character   
   > motivation - [...]   
      
   Sounds good to me!  (And 4 November is rapidly approaching.)   
      
   > It is important to do different kinds of revision:   
   > structural, line/copy edit (for clunkiness and   
   > continuity) and proof-read. The structural is probably   
   > the most heart-wrenching because that's when your   
   > darlings lie groaning on the killing room floor.   
      
   It’s also what I find hardest by far.  Fortunately, I don’t   
   have to deal with it when I translate!   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)