As I mentioned in a recent post, my editor, Brenda Copeland, has given me back my manuscript, all marked up with red dots and lines and little symbols, and I’ve been working on revisions.

This is my third book and third editor.  It’s always a little scary having another person read your work and then make suggestions about changing parts of the plot or the structure of sentences.  I’ve been working on this book for a long time and parts of it are several years old.  I’ve reread and reworked certain paragraphs so many times that I now have them memorized.  So, when I first sat down with Brenda’s notes and started rewriting, I felt a little anxious.   When I read certain passages, after deleting a word or even a comma, the sentences sounded off.  No, I kept thinking.  There’s something wrong with the flow.  It was better before.