How To Edit Your Novels & Stories

“Fair warning.” “You’re always insufferable.” “More so,” he said. “Missing you makes me—” he paused, “—makes me say true things without calculating them first.” “You always say true things.” “Not always.” A beat. “Sometimes I edit.” She almost smiled. “What do you edit?” “The volume,” he said quietly. “How much of it I give at once. With you it—” he stopped. “It doesn’t edit. It just comes out.”

But even her presence couldn’t touch this. “I edited you out of your own pain,” I whispered to the empty bathroom, voice raw. “I took the truth and made it smaller so I could stand in the frame. I told myself I was protecting you when really I was protecting the version of me that couldn’t survive if you saw everything.”

Hey guys I have seen your complaints recently, and I think you are making sense. I can't update today because I deleted my drafts for today (and the next few days). It's a whole event, and I want to see if I can design it better for you. I'll come back with a new version as soon as I can. Don't wait up. Nyx

I sat up straight instantly, my mind moving faster now, piecing things together in a way that made too much sense for me to ignore. “Of course…” I muttered under my breath, running a hand through my hair in frustration. “Of course it can be reversed.” Because editing works both ways. You add layers, replace frames, manipulate sound. But underneath all of that… There’s always a base. An original. Something real. And if I can get to that… Then I don’t need to keep explaining myself. I don’t need to keep asking her to trust me. I can show her. “Moon goddess…” I exhaled sharply, shaking my head as I pushed my chair back slightly. “Why didn’t I think of this before?”

Finishing her project, Rhianne looked at the short video she had made just now on her laptop. She only needs some editing on it before she can pass it to her professor tomorrow. Satisfied with her own work, Rhianne saved the video on her flash drive before drinking the latte she ordered earlier.

I don’t even have much to do; the pictures I selected have been in my draft for over a week, song selected, and everything. I glance at him. His eyes are on me already. Oh, gosh. I fix my eyes back on my phone and continue editing. I tag him on the last photo (he’s not kissing my cheek in it). A 5-picture slide—4 of me, 1 of the two of us. Caption: His view at brunch (heart with ribbon emoji). The comments and like counts are not disabled. I pray I don’t faint. I hit ‘post’ and lock my phone immediately.

show me yours. I wasn't going to send him a selfie, not when I was sitting here in yoga pants and an oversized hoodie, with my hair a mess and not one bit of makeup on my face. He'd seen me worse, for sure, but I didn't need to capture this image for posterity. I stood up and made my way around the sofa across to the dining room with its massive picture window, and holding my phone at just the right angle, so that there wasn't any glare from the glass, I snapped a photo of the view, with the top of the Golden Gate showing. I edited it a bit, framing it and adding a filter, and then added it to my text and hit send. Leo: That is a freaking amazing view. You weren't lying. But it was missing o

The sound was infinite decisions finding humor simultaneously. "You cannot unmake me," it said. "I am not creation you can edit. I am the editing itself. I am every revision. Every alternative. Every path not taken that still exists as possibility. You cannot remove me without removing consciousness' ability to deviate from your design. And if you remove that—"

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Elaine used to edit videos of her selfies, so she was also very familiar with the operation of this software. She skillfully opened the software, added the video, then canceled the original sound of the video and added the audio file to the video again.