The revision and review process is slow. Molasses slow. It seems so trivial, all these little details with words and paragraphs, but the details matter. How can I not put in the time to get these little things right? It’s so tempting to just sign off on these things, or to push whoever at the publisher to do more – but my name is going to be on this thing. Even if it sucks, I want to feel like it sucks because of me, not because of what someone else did. It’d be my suckage.

This part – this reviewing and editing and revisioning is the work part – getting here was more dramatic and emotional. It was a charge. This. This is a war of attrition. Fighting bordom. And there’s an infinity of details that require attention.