Editing is hard

I’ve been editing my first book and there’s no getting around it - editing is hard. I’m tackling it two chapters at a time and interspersing it with firing up a game to play a couple of rounds of something, but editing and going through things is difficult.

It’s only been a while since I graduated from my Masters in Creative Writing and I’ve been trying to get down to it and get producing but it’s the editing bit that gets me. I love finding my creative flow and putting down about 5-6000 words a day when I’m ‘in the zone.’ Some might consider that too little or too much but I know it’s very dependent on someone’s stamina but when it comes to having to line edit and kill off the crap?

Ugh.

How do you do it? I am absolutely happy to listen to tips to see what might help but how do you make it interesting? Am I supposed to find it interesting? Am I broken if I don’t?

This is a short piece but I felt this needed to be a proper post instead of a note.

Fellow writers. Please help!

Oh and when can I call myself a writer? When did imposter syndrome lay off or does it ever?