The process of editing.
The process of editing and rewriting.
Cutting words from your work can suck. It can, without a doubt, be one of the toughest parts of the writing process, especially when you either a) have to cut a lot of words/pages b) have to add a lot of words/pages or c) to cut huge sections and redo them.
Figuring out what can stay and what can go is one of the challenges of making your story the strongest it can be. Here are a few things that can help (and by the way, making gifs on Photoshop is a great way to waste time but an awful way to get editing done.) These are basically things that I do once I have a first draft of a story.
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