Mark Twain said, “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out.”
Often we have to cut what doesn’t serve the story and it might be our favorite line, paragraph, scene, or chapter.
Mark Twain said, “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out.”
Often we have to cut what doesn’t serve the story and it might be our favorite line, paragraph, scene, or chapter.
But it’s so, so, so hard.
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Hard to do, but essential for good editing.
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