Loving your words
In a writing workshop in Philadelphia Writers Group, we read Rose’s manuscript. Three members of the group advised Rose to kill a particular sentence, but Rose kept saying she liked it. Finally Carol suggested that Rose move the sentence to the bottom of the document and write the piece without it. If, when she finished writing, she still wanted the sentence, she could find it patiently waiting at the end of the last page. Wise advice.
That’s a technique I often use – moving, but not dumping – words or sentences that I have written but probably don’t need to keep.
Try it.
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