I'm declaring July to be my own personal Novel Editing Month. Every day I will unpack some of the notes I left in the text (e.g. "Insert horrific buzzword laden sentence here - fill with verbed nouns and nouned verbs"), or clean up unintentionally horrific sentences, or bulk up one of the hastily sketched characters.

And, as in November, this site will be Excerpt Central:

I grab the staple remover, which I would declare my all-time favorite office supply if I were actually willing to admit I had a favorite office supply. I take a moment to humor myself with a fanged Senor Wencas routine, flip it over to give him an underbite, and invent a new character: Murray Eel. I get bored trying think of something for him to say other than “S’alright” in what I take to be an eely kind of way, and instead put the staple remover to its designed and eponymous use.