Your research into editing may have turned up references to something called a style sheet. This 2-minute read will tell you all you need...

No! Don't give up. Ask any writer and they will agree: the first draft is always rubbish. In the words of Terry Pratchett, 'the first...

You know when you're watching a police procedural on TV and the detective promises that he will find and return the missing uncle? Or...

In short, no. You will always be the author of your own work. An editor's job isn't to change that, or to make you alter something...