#Rewriting

Editing is artisan violence that blends the author’s soul in a blender and elegantly conceals others’ mistakes. The more you meddle with a manuscript, the more its original voice is suffocated, hiding in plain sight in the finished product. It is cultural weightlifting, repeatedly deconstructing and reconstructing strings of text to flaunt one’s taste. A performative balancing act between reader pleasure and critic skepticism—an extreme self-contradiction. And in the end, no one wants to take responsibility for this spectacle, the sensual ritual called editing.