I’m a writer who loathes revision. For me, the joy is in writing something new. But good editing is inseparable from good writing. It’s also inseparable from good jiu-jitsu. In writing, like in jiu-jitsu, editing is where half of the learning takes place. As a newspaper editor, I noticed that the reporters who paid attention to revision stood out. Similarly, the grapplers who edit their BJJ sta...