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My old writing teacher in Dayton told me to cut every adverb and I fought her for a year
Back in 2019 she marked up a 12 page short story of mine with so much red that whole sentences vanished, and I told her she was gutting my voice. Two drafts later the thing sold to a tiny lit mag for $25 and readers quoted lines I'd almost deleted. Now I hand out the same advice to my own workshop group, so what's a rule you got that felt like a personal attack until it worked?
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rayc894d ago
Fought my editor over cutting my favorite line for weeks and it turned out to be the exact thing making the whole paragraph drag.
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