Editing is:
Eyes.
Time.
Rhythm.
Reaction.
And practice.
I know he's talking about film editing, but I think quite a bit of this applies to editing novels as well. If we want to write cinematically, that is.
Cadfael was left to do everything alone, but he had in his time laboured under far hotter suns than this, and was doggedly determined not to let his domain run wild, whether the outside world fell into chaos or no.
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