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.
The Indiana and the Illinois units came over the barricade north of the railroad and captured a gun. Private James S. Adkins of the 33rd Illinois, exhilarated by the bloodless victory, leaped astride the gun tube, waved his elbows up and down at his sides, and crowed like a rooster. Then, curious, he tugged at the lanyard. The gun went off, hurling a shell close over the heads of the units coming up in support, and bucking Adkins head over heels into the dirt. Miraculously, no one was hurt.
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