The Fine Art of Killing Words: Edit for a Lean, Mean Manuscript with Beth Daniels

[RJ Garside]

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The Fine Art of Killing Words: Edit for a Lean, Mean Manuscript with Beth Daniels - Trim down your manuscript and get ready to hit SEND!

Not long ago my agent gave me what sounded like an impossible mission. Trim a 100,000+ word manuscript to under 90,000 words. That’s approximately 35 pages worth of words. Words I sweated to string together. Words I loved.

“I think it will interest more editors at the shorter length,” my agent said. Considering I’d done estimated word counts on similar books and thought that 100,000 was on the slim side, I was dumbfounded. I’d already edited it to death, I thought.

I thought wrong.

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