As Mercury stations direct, it’s back to the bones of a writing project. Editors tell you to fire your darlings, and now you’re eliminating the lines and subplots that are the hardest to let go. Trust this process. If you’ve taken the revisions as far as they can go, enlist a second opinion. Or an entire workshop of new perspectives. Though it’s never pleasant to face our audience, when a consensus forms, it’s emboldening. Keep going.