Accountability is designed to prevent you from doing bad. Editability is designed to help you do good. The real question is not “Are you accountable?” but rather “Are you editable?” Do you mind your manuscripts being overhauled by other thumbs? What if the script being “edited” is your life? What if the subject being sculpted is your soul? . . . Where there is love, there is God.14 —popular medieval saying . . . Even the best writers in the world need editors. In fact, the more something glitters,