Matt Haig, author of 'The Midnight Library' - Bestselling writing talks searching for humanity, trusting the process, and getting the first draft done.
Writer's Routine
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The Importance of Editing
With the Midnight Library there were certain bits where I was breaking the golden rule of you know telling and not showing. There's a bit of that that goes on here that G-editive wasn't too sure about. Sometimes they'll have something radical to say that is totally right and means the total change like for instance I wrote a book called The Humans and that was set for first draft of that started in space. They said if you start with that you're probably going to lose about 90% of your potential readers for this book because the heart of this book is about human beings even though it's got an alien protagonist. And so literally I chopped 40,000 words in one edit and
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