Go Ahead, Make My Day

From my most meticulous and critical (in a good way) editor, after I submitted a piece the other day, "sentence by sentence, the piece reads better than anything you've sent before. There's a kind of ease and control to the writing, along with nice turns of phrase." As almost every writer knows, "ease" takes a lot of work to create.

Of course, this came after a statement that I need to restructure the piece and delve into more specifics—show don't tell, the classic advice to writers. Still, the email brought a big goofy smile to my face.