Old 03-19-19, 07:36 PM
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Editing good material into better material is incredibly hard. It takes a very compassionate editor or a great deal of personal distance between you and the work.

it is obvious this came from your heart--the source of real communication. The hard part is to pick it apart and tighten up every little loose section, without killing the feeling.

Even as it is this is a fine piece of writing. it Communicates. it transfers thought and emotion between writer and reader.

Now think of the reader---a person looking at this from zero, feeling and knowing none of what you feel, what you tried to infuse into the words. What question would the reader ask? Where would the reader find it hard to follow. How can the story be made clearer to a person who has seen bikes, maybe rode as a kid, knows there are people who ride bikes, but lives in a bikeless world?

Whether you do more with this or not, you did a fine job here.
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