3 essays
Revision & Editing
There's a revision pass most writers won't do. It's the one where the sentence you love most, the one you wrote the book around, gets cut because it's been protecting…
Revision & Editing
The single most common revision move by experienced novelists: cut the opening. Here's why, and how to know which of your first pages to lose.
Revision & Editing
Drafting and revising are not the same skill. Here's what the second-pass reader does, why you can't do it while you're still drafting, and how to become them.