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The Tripods Attack!

Another day of Editing…

admin | March 7, 2010

“Murder Your Darlings!”
I heard that was given as advice by one author to an up-and-commer regarding the editing process.
I learned much when Writing Tripods, enough to know that, as Stephen King says, “The Editor is (nearly) always right!”
Today I hacked out a sequence I really enjoyed, but that truly added little or nothing to [...]