Trench Editing

So we're slugging our way through Pershing in Command. This is editing Trench Warfare.

We're reading words we wrote two, three, four years ago for the hundredth time and still finding all kinds of things wrong.

We are aware that one can over-edit and at some point the damn thing has to be finished, but maaan, we don't know how some of these sentences and paragraphs came into existence.

Yesterday we read five paragraphs describing the attack of the 1st and 2nd Divisions* at Soissons. These five paragraphs were at once too detailed and not detailed enough. We  consolidated them five down to one. 

We think (hope) we're through the rough part and the remaining three chapters are in good shape. Please god? 

There are no atheists in the editing trenches.

*Marines, for you jarheads out there.