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Revision Makes The Work Smarter
- Iteration makes the finished story smarter than its author by accumulating wiser decisions over many passes.
- Repeated honest passes tend to remove the writer's easy charms and reveal a truer voice.
Remove Slick Passages That Break Tone
- When a polished paragraph makes the reader's interest drop, set it aside; it may belong to another story.
- Give flashy passages to where they fit and let the story breathe into its own shape.
People Are First Drafts Too
- The mental 'scale model' we create of people is a draft that needs revision like a story.
- Waiting for more data and revising that model avoids cheap, limiting judgments.