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Later delete all
overmatter. Sometimes doing it in two steps is easier than one fell swoop.
As novices we love a certain word, phrase or musicality. Don’t be distracted by that. Think only of your reader and
shortest route to communicating your idea.
My mentor, Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down
Bones, says,“when you go over your work, become a Samurai, a great warrior with courage to cut anything out....be willing not to be sentimental about your writing when you reread it. Look at it with a clear, piercing mind.”
“Clear writers have accepted
grim reality,” says John Trimble that nine-tenths of all writing is rewriting...perhaps most important of all, they are sticklers for continuity. They link their sentences and paragraphs as meticulously as if they might face criminal charges for negligence.”
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