The glorious task of line editing. The arduous task of line editing. The closest we writers get to a fearless moral inventory of our work is when we go line by line, sentence by sentence, to determine if the words amount to the meaning we wish to impart with this story. I am currently in the line edit stage and while I still find the fun in it, the process can be harrowing. Line editing forces us to reckon with the story that currently exists on the page and ask ourselves if
