I've gone through the first pass of editing now, taking out over-used words and inserting stuff and taking care of the easy, grammatical, CTRL-H stuff that you can do by rote. There was a lot of it, but it's all cleaned up. Now we get to the hard part of rewriting: cutting.
Not a little, either. A lot, if I want to get it into the right word range, like maybe 20% of it. That's not such an easy thing to do. I need to do that without compromising the story, either, and without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I can definitely see the need for it, thought, so now it's just a matter of finding which parts are fat enough that they can be taken out without jeopardizing the story.
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