Persistence in Writing Pays with Progress

I had a writing teacher named Benjamin Percy who, according to Wikipedia, is “an American author of novels and short stories, essayist, comic book writer, and screenwriter.” I am old enough to have been Ben’s babysitter. By that, I mean I was sixteen when he was born. I met him when I was forty-six and he was thirty. …

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Trust the Reader

Trust the reader to get your writing, no matter how weird or intellectual it might be. Let them pick up what you’re putting down! You can trust the reader by avoiding these two things:1. Overexplaining2. Editorializing Overexplaining Overexplaining comes when you don’t stop at the end of a sentence, but go on with more words. I …

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