A big part of revision is cutting anything that is redundant. That’s what is meant, at least in part, by “be willing to kill your darlings.” No matter how much you love a word, sentence, paragraph or chapter, if it doesn’t serve the larger story, it has to go. This could be a redundant word. …
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Published on June 22, 2025 23:20