Editing Quote by Mark Twain

Editing Quote by Mark Twain

Mark Twain said, “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out.”

Often we have to cut what doesn’t serve the story and it might be our favorite line, paragraph, scene, or chapter.

2 Comments

April 24, 2014 · 10:02 am

2 Responses to Editing Quote by Mark Twain

  1. But it’s so, so, so hard.

  2. Hard to do, but essential for good editing.

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