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The harshness of it all....

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Robert_Boyd:
That was an awesome link.  I think I'm going to try it on my next (well, my first) book. :)

JenaRey:
Steven King defined the need to trim a manuscript as Murdering Your Darlings.  In his On Writing book he says to just write the dumb thing.  Then edit knowing you'll add about a quarter more to it.  Then go through and kill about a third.  That's the manuscript you should then be sending out.

His book is very helpful if you can get your hands on a copy.

~J

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