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Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting

Writing Excuses

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How to Trim Your Fiction

Cormac McCarthy: "I generally cut about 15 to 20 percent of my novels" He says he looks for redundancy in his writing and cuts out half of it. The other thing that I look at are the beginnings and endings of scenes and chapters. Do we view flashbacks the same way as we view prologs? What do you think?

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