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Back to the editing!

Back to the cutting!

Back to the start of part 2!

Wait. What? Weren’t you like 50 pages in?

Well, yes. But I was just fixing clarity. I wasn’t cutting and cleaning and leaving behind just the words the story needed.

“…pretend I was doing…” looks a lot better as “…feign…”

There was excessive description that didn’t matter and won’t.

There were the main character’s worries repeated 5 different ways.

Just because I’m good at rambling doesn’t mean my novel needs to.