Writers are masters of hunting down and purging the extraneous from our novels. It hurts to "kill our darlings." But isn’t that the perfect metaphor for our writing? Let go to love more.
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Editing For Theme: Search-and-Employ
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Barbara Linn Probst shows how editing your work for theme can strengthen your book. In summary, "Search and Destroy" can be swapped for "Search and Employ."
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