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6 questions (good) editors ask

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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I'd Sent You a Rewrite of a Scene

"I was basically trying to say as little as possible and the fifteen hundred words about what they're you know just I don't know how to put it. No there's a there's a great line that Elmore Leonard said all the time and he says well I like to leave out the things that people are going to skip. Yeah what yeah leave out the boring part." "When you can do that the expectation of the reader it creates a mystery for the reader right because then they're like I wonder what they're talking about ... eventually you're going to find out"

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