To effectively distill _Of Mice and Men_ down to 990 words, I had to condense everything.
My first draft was a whopping 2100 words. I agonized for weeks trimming it to 990 words.
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Storycraft
Most of writing is rewriting, they say. But, this focuses on what can feel like drudgery and ignores the fun side of fiction rewriting: Exploring the multiverse of your imagination.
I was visited by a spirit from the past.
A friend asked me how to go about writing. As you can guess, the first thing I told him was “write.” Among other things, I also said, “never throw away notes or drafts."
I have every scrap, outline, note or story fragment I’ve ever written that was at least a complete phrase and was intended to be a story or part of one.
I have bookshelves which are mausoleums for ideas that have passed on.