Okay, so this is the first in a series on hints and tips about creative writing. This one is about the editing process.

So, imagine that you just wrote a story. Say that, when you finished it, you found that the story was about someone called Harold who, aside from his unfortunate habit of not making it to the toilet on time, had an adventure when an alien spaceship crashed in his back garden that then led to him having a meeting with God and a late breakfast.

There you are, in front of yo...