I received the edits for The Fall of a State this morning, which were very light. Aside from edits for house style, there were six suggestions for alternate word choice and about the same amount again for grammar/syntax changes. I went through the whole thing and cut/rephrased a fair bit for flow, so overall I cut it by around 3%. Could possibly have been more brutal, but that would have changed the original feeling of the tale. The story is, what, 14 months old – it was the first thing I...