Editing

My wife is the best editor I've encountered in damn long time. She reads closely, she reads analytically, but she's also a thoughtful, sensitive editor who considers my emotions as the person who wrote the thing. She looks for not just how to structurally improve the piece, but for what is really going on in the metaphorical sublayers of the piece. She's very constructive, but also brutally honest. she gets right down to the heart of what you're trying to say, and lets me know what I've put down that's fighting what I think I'm trying to say. She doesn't care if you want to insist that the story already says what you think it should have already said. I'm lucky to have an editor who not only cares about me, but about what I want to write.