I actually struggle with editing.
The writing part has always come relatively easy to me. I make stories all the time. When I’m curled up in bed, I’m thinking, always dreaming, what if The Princess Bride was different? What would I do if I was trapped in a cave? How would the world look like if I was alone with technology? How would a planet look like if the oxygen was like smoke?
This who I am as a writer.
However, as an editor, I am not as crafted as I want to be.
I have to read a lot. Stare at the page a lot. Back space. Have the computer read to be in a stilted voice that can’t say “what” right.
So know that if you struggle with editing, you are not alone. Many of us do.
Think of me right now probably staring at lines of dialogue and then start to pace acting it out in odd voices to see if it feels real. If my story is working.