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Day 158: Edit for, and with, your readers.

Write with the door closed; rewrite with the door open.
(Stephen King)

This quote by King can be interpreted in 2 ways, both useful as you seek to improve your own writing.

When you write, you should be concerned with only your ideas, but when you rewrite (or edit), you should be concerned with your audience.You write alone, all by yourself, but the rewriting (editing) process involves others, i.e., you don’t do it alone.

In either interpretation, the writing is a deeply personal and private process, but the rewriting and editing process occurs from the reader’s perspective.