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  • Critique vs Criticism

    Critique vs Criticism

    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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  • Editing process

    Editing process

    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…

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