Why I always edit chapters before sending them in
Characters’ emotions before editing:
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Characters' emotions after editing:
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My tendency to make them go overboard is quite acute (pun not intended).
Seriously. On every edit of first draft dramatic moments and fights, it’s like I’m reigning in psychos with quadrupolar disorder and trying to make them look human again.