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Working through the editing process brings some of the more esoteric practices of creation into focus. One of those is critique. The editing process is a self-critique of your own work, a preparation for showing it to the wider world in an attempt to share your own vision. Presenting your work to the world is…
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I’ve never edited a long piece of writing before. By long, I mean novel length. I can easily churn out a polished 20-page research paper, a 10-page short story, flash fiction, all these smaller pieces have less space in which to pack overarching themes and character information. Every word in my smaller pieces is mindfully…
