The best editor is one who is insightful, constructive, and absolutely merciless toward your writing. Your responsibility as a writer is to your reader; give t

The best editor is one who is insightful, constructive, and absolutely merciless toward your writing. Your responsibility as a writer is to your reader; give them the clearest and most direct path to follow that you can (via the most accessible language you can wrangle) and then populate that path with compelling people, scenes, and ideas. No one (except Faulkner) criticizes Hemingway on the basis of "his sentences are too short".