I’m busy implementing two-hundred pages of handwritten edits, which are mostly stylistic, show/tell, and structural.  I’m about halfway through getting them into the manuscript, and I can already see how much more polished the prose is looking.  I love how I’m starting to learn that cutting down on things like modifiers, adverbs, and overwritten sentences doesn’t equal stripping my voice out of the narrative.  It’s taken me years and years to see it, and it’s probably the single best lesson I’ve learned in this whole process.

In related news, my editing shorthand may as well be another language.