When I opened my novel I was surprised to find that there were around 5,000 edits and suggestions for my story. That’s crazy. I never expected so much attention to detail. But it was all the notes that accompanied the edits that really impressed me. Suggestions to make sentences more active. Notes on consistency. Additions to avoid confusion. Even a couple additional paragraphs to help foreshadow events to come. While going through the edits, I started to wonder if the editor knew my book better than I did. All the feedback was great and incredibly helpful, and it turned a story I felt was good into something I could be truly proud of.