Yesterday, I finished my “first pass” through the line edits of All She Ever Dreamed.

My first thought whenever I get the line edits for one of my books is something like, How did I not see that before I submitted the manuscript? The repetitions, the redundancies, the weak word choices, etc. My editor says I turn in “such clean” manuscripts, but it doesn’t feel that way when I start through the line edits. Sigh.

But then I run across editorial comments like these: