I am finding that editing is still hard work, but it goes somewhat faster than forging new territory in a novel. Today, I began editing in a major way, and in the course of about four hours, I have made it through the first three chapters of the story.
This with the inevitable interruptions from my kids and wife; about one per five minutes on average. It comes to about a chapter an hour. When I was writing the novel from scratch, I might have finished one chapter in 5 hours, on a good day, but more often 7 or 8 hours.
Editing is also rewarding in that when I finish a passage, I am a little more satisfied that I have a better product, albiet just a small portion of it. I now also estimate that I will have to go through the story from beginning to end a second or even a third time before I will feel confident in sending it out for agents to consider.
