If your revised manuscript still has the same events in the same order, then what was the point?

Okay, I think line-editing is great. Lines should be as information-dense, melodic, and insightful as possible, and you can't get there without a lot of work. However, I don't think a line edit is rarely the difference between selling and not selling, or pleasing and not pleasing your writer.

Too often I see people get a bunch of comments back on their m…