Letting go of words, making room for story

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A recent blog post by Kristine Kathryn Rusch struck a chord with me. Writers fail by getting too hung up on the words, she explains. Writers who focus on words lose sense of the story, and the quality of their writing suffers because of it.

This resonated with me because it’s what I’m going through right now with my WIP. I have lost the flow of my story over and over again because I’ve been caught up in choosing the right words. I’ve got a project full of beautifu...