It's so seldom that editing makes the news. Thank you, NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130838304
Oxford professor Kathryn Sutherland studied original, handwritten Jane Austen manuscripts. She found lots of mistakes, and even some crazy punctuation (or lack thereof).
It just goes to show ya. No matter how brilliant and lasting your ideas are, nobody's prose is perfect. Conversely, perfect editing does not make for brilliant prose. Editors and writers need one another and always will.
I like. Us writers tend to edit as we go far too much. It's refreshing to see such an accomplished one rise above that.
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