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plkphoto
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Bumping back up for people who want a prompt to help them remember the suggested search terms this weekend as they madly cut back their stories...
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nixie
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This!! excellent tool!
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nixie
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Noe that I have read them all - the one thing I didn't see here: When I have 'way too many' words to cut - I stop what I am doing and write an outline.
Outlining the story let's you see its bones - it essentially forces you to look at what the story is rather than what the words are. Once I really think about *why* those three paragraphs exist, I can often either eliminate that item from the outline and take them away - or figure out what in them is flab, and make that go away.
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cricket
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really helpful, polishing the old and weary skills after incalcuble number of years in academic writing, but I must disagree on a distance POV, as I reflect on some of the most beautiful fiction that relies on it- think of Oscar Wilde without it!
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mrjaywilson
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