Listener's Digest: August 24, 2024
Writing is revision—as every serious writer knows.
This principle has a painful side. You think you’ve written something good, only to find on second reading that it isn’t clear, it doesn’t flow, it lacks vitality. So you rewrite. The next draft is excessively ornate, self-conscious in its striving for rhetorical effect: you must assassinate its darlings
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