Structural editing (what some call developmental editing) mainly takes imagination and nerve Line editing mainly takes rationality, even though the results can seem primarily aesthetic (better “flow” results from better logic and serialization) Copy editing mainly takes taste
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Main thing with structural editing is willingness to throw away large blocks of text, compress entire pages into a few dense lines, and expand a few dense lines into entire pages. It’s a barbaric process. If texts were beasts, structural editing would be butchery and torture.
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