Machedit

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Editing like you’re swinging a machete at a buffet; chopping everything in sight without caring if it’s good or not.

I read that essay and it felt like it got hit by a meat cleaver.

She turned a 500-word story into a 100-word mess.

He cut out the whole middle of the paragraph and called it a ‘plot twist’.

Editing like you’re mad and you just want everything to be gone, even if it didn’t do anything wrong.

He took out the main character and left the sidekick to explain everything.

She removed the climax and called it a ‘surprise’.

He deleted the first paragraph and said it was ‘too slow’.

Editing like you’re using a machete to fight a crowd; you just want everything dead and you don’t care how it looks.

He slashed through the dialogue and left the characters screaming in silence.

She hacked up the story and called it ‘streamlining’.

He took out the setting and said it was ‘too much’.

Editing like you’re trying to kill the text with a machete; you don’t care if it’s alive or not, just make it stop.

He killed the paragraph and left the sentence hanging.

She sliced through the plot and left the reader confused.

He chopped out the ending and said it was ‘too dramatic’.

Editing like you’re at a buffet with a machete and you’re just going to take what you want, no questions asked.

He took the best parts of the story and left the rest in the trash.

She grabbed the main idea and threw the rest away.

He cut out the middle and said it was ‘too boring’.