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Back to Search4. Good Writing Means Leaving Things Out
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Wayne discusses the importance of a type of spareness in writing fiction, and cites a short story by Raymond Carver, novels by Vladimir Nabokov, a song by Leonard Cohen, and two movies …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
3. Changes in the Publishing Business
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Wayne discusses some changes that have happened in traditional publishing in the last decade or more, and speculates on how these changes may expand and other changes may come.
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
2. Four Examples of Good and Bad Writing
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Wayne chooses examples from four works to illustrate good and bad writing: What Strange Paradise, the Giller Prize–winning novel by Omar El Akkad, published in 2021 ◘ Hominids, by Rober…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
1. How an Editor Makes Your Writing Better
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Wayne discusses the four types of editing and the "deliverables" that an editor owes to their client.
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago