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Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress...
Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole winnowing process I j
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― The Polysyllabic Spree
― The Polysyllabic Spree
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When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
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― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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