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“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.”
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“If you treat editing like you're making an abridged version of your book, it can help determine what's vital vs what can be cut.”
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“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words

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