On Writing

Whatever

I am by no means a terrific writer. And I find editing my own work to be both tedious and nearly impossible. Once it is written, I find it hard to change. But now that I write for a living (sort of), I've been noticing bad writing a lot more.

In October, though, he plans to move to an apartment near the university that they are planning to buy.

How this sentence slipped by an editor at the New York Times just baffles me.