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Use The Needle Of Interest
- Read each draft slowly and honestly monitor your interest like a needle swinging positive or negative.
- When interest dips, cut, rewrite, or move the offending section and iterate repeatedly until the needle stays positive.
Revision Makes The Work Smarter
- Iteration makes the finished story smarter than its author by accumulating wiser decisions over many passes.
- Repeated honest passes tend to remove the writer's easy charms and reveal a truer voice.
Remove Slick Passages That Break Tone
- When a polished paragraph makes the reader's interest drop, set it aside; it may belong to another story.
- Give flashy passages to where they fit and let the story breathe into its own shape.