You've done it. You've finally, triumphantly, typed out "The End." Congratulations! Now comes the hard part: revision. Revising is often more laborious than the

AL Kennedy: The virtues of reworking, taking apart, breaking down, questioning, exploring, forgetting and losing and finding and remembering and generally testing your prose until it shows you what it needs to be

Revision is not a small puddle that you leap over in a couple of months of work. It’s more like the Atlantic Ocean. Pack your steamer trunk and a bunch of snacks because you’re going to need them.