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Weekly Writers: Polishing The Draft, Tip #1

Weekly Writers: Polishing The Draft, Tip #1

How to make a book or story better

Sep 02, 2024
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Read Through The Work Multiple Times

We know the draft didn’t pop into existence, all shiny on the writer’s desk, a gift from the magic book fairies with a tidy satin bow around it. No, it took sweat, and years of thinking that borders on obsession, and research, and plotting, and agonising, and writing. All that effort has led you here, to a completed draft. And it needs more work.

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