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Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects

Deviate

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Is Your Explanation Blocking Your Experience?

A lot of the explanation this there is really almost like a captured version of me reading the book as i was writing it. So if a character does something and then i explain it, that's like me figuring it out for the first time. As soon as i got rid of all that explanation, then there was something for the reader to do. And so your explanation is like blocking their experience. You take it out, and that the reader will,. i feel that like, what does this mean? What does this dialogue imply? What doesThis action suggest? What doesthis clue mean? And they'll, they'll do all that work. It's their revelation, instead of your revelation

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