WASTE NOT WANT NOT
Sometimes it becomes necessary to cut a sentence, a
paragraph or even a whole chapter. I used to agonise over getting rid of
material which I thought wasn’t working. Then I had a Baldric Moment and came
up with a cunning plan. I created a word document to hold all those little gems
I’d spent hours crafting and polishing. When I was editing Chapter Two, I thought
one piece of text was a bit OTT and cut it out. When my editor read this
particular passage she wrote on my MS, ‘Doesn’t she care about her best
friend?’ This is one of those times when I’m glad I save instead of delete.
After a quick cut and paste job the passage now resembles something my editor
would approve of.
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