- My editor, whose status is such that there's no possible way I can even vaguely quibble with his assessment SO THAT'S GONNA BE A TREAT On the plus side, the manuscript is only 177k words, not 300, so I don't have to cut out 180k words I only need to cut out 50k and make the remaining 120k EXTRA SPECIAL EXCITING. And thanks to my research into the "John Kennedy Toole" mythos, I now have ample reason to just fucking edit the book instead of thinking I'm some misunderstood genius. On unrelated note, I'm 30 minutes away from being a certified social media strategy expert, have learned more than I care to admit about the implementation of ADA2010 and a pretty good sense of construction prices in two different markets. All of which is knowledge I'm really looking forward to forgetting in about six months.You need to ruthlessly go through the manuscript and cut it to 120,000 words rather than the 300,000 it now seems to contain.