…and it turns out that my editor did something absolutely infuriating. To wit, she somehow viciously managed to identify precisely the bits that I had hurriedly papered over because they were weak spots in the narrative that I didn’t want to actually fix. The absolute nerve of her!
(pause)
Yeah, I’ll be fixing it this weekend. Just goes to show, hey? Do it right the first time, and all that.
NOOOOOOOO
The palettes over weak spots are my favorite part of a Moe Lane original.
They allow me the reader to experience a sense of possibility and wonder that if Moe could do it with papered over weak spots, I COULD TOO.
Excise that fantasy at your peril.