Editing Non-fiction Manuscripts

Latched onto my Writer's Group last week.  Read a manuscript, as my printer failed.  Roundly critiqued to where I understand professional editors all declined it.  Too long.  Parts did not fit together.  While perhaps a masterpiece of thought, it was not a masterpiece or reading.  Yet the critiques were much appreciated for their objectivity and candor.

I have a lot more to edit.  But submissions are among this cycle's Semi-Annual projects.  The composition keeps my mind agile.  My spirit would be better if it were shared with readers, but that takes a measure of discipline and compliance with the rules that the different potential destinations have.  If that's what it takes, that should be what I do.