Some of the Best Writing Advice I've Gotten

"Sometimes you don't need to fix things; you just need to get rid of them." This came from John Feltman, an editor at Rodale Books I worked with - I'd struggled with a complex passage in a chapter I was writing about, I don't know, vitamin D, and John introduced the notion that sometimes the best thing is to cut the offending bit. I think of this when I'm struggling with recalcitrant fiction passages. If it just doesn't work after rewriting several times - I get rid of it.



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