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Seth's Blog: Editors
Seth Godin talks about editors and how important editing is:
“Turns out that for the last seventeen twenty-seven years, every single movie that managed to win the Oscar for best picture was also nominated for best editing.”
Most of editing is deleting, and that’s a job too important to be left to editors! As an author, look for opportunities to delete chunks or move them into a better order.
There’s a reason a film’s edit is called the “cut”.