
How important is editing?
I'm an Industrial Engineer or, in other words, definitely not a full-time author with vast knowledge of the publishing industry. Back in February 2018 I had finished my first version of Tale of Two Brothers, with 115k+ words. During March 2018, I revised my work thoroughly, and was able to reduce it to 108.599 words. However, I still felt the book was not ready to publish, especially since English is my second language. I researched about editing and learned about line-editin