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Ifeanyichukwu.

8 months

Hello Everyone, I'm here to clean up your manuscript. I offer line, structural, and developmental edits. Of course, your short story, novel, poem is in good hands. Send a message. ✌️

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Ifeanyichukwu.

@peclif

8 months

For you who writes, thinks about writing, not sure about writing, wishes they're not writing, feels trashy about writing, craves acceptance, just submitted, slapped with rejections, hides their writing, scared of feedback - Happy International Writers' Day.

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4 months

Your art will save you. Write.

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4 months

Write. Your tribe will find you. Write. Be seen.

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7 months

You don't ask God to teach you how to write. Or make you write. You write. Each draft, a request. It is nakedness. It is death. To write is to pray. To pray is to rewrite until the story says, 'Okay, I'm fully formed.' Therein lies an answered prayer.

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2 months

Write. This post validates you. Write.

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4 months

Write even when you are not winning. Intimacy with your craft is your first win, and the only win. If there's any other win, it's merely a footnote of your love affair with your work.

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2 months

Dear Writer, Clean your space, scatter it, make the call, apply to that program, check your mail, celebrate your wins, laugh at your failures, attend to your body, drink some audacity, Sincerely, Me.

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7 months

If you are struggling with writing fiction, read some poems. And essays too. They give access to language and it varieties. Poetry especially, gives impetus for the creation of new language/expression.

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3 months

If you struggle to write: Write, "I am struggling to write." That's a sentence already. What should be the next? Maybe: "I don't know how to proceed." That's another sentence. You are writing. Let it lead you to wherever your struggle is.

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10 months

In my years of writing and getting published in literary journals, here are some useful tips I've learnt. You might find them useful too. A thread.✌️

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5 months

Even on the days you think you are not a writer, you are.

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7 months

Write what matters to you. That's prior. Nobody writes in a vacuum. Stories are never too old. Don't worry about the what's popular. Write yours. You're a creator. Write in your own voice. Be original. Be fresh.

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@peclif

5 months

Hello Writers, Pleases share links to your recently published work: fiction, nonfiction, poetry. I'd love to read. Cheers.

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3 months

Rewriting is the writing. And it's like going back to your vomits over and over. Nobody likes going back to their vomits. But writing is a lesson on how to.

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6 months

Writing is not a competition. You don't know how many times the fellow who just shared an acceptance got rejected, or tore their bodies into pieces of I'm-not-good-enough, or their 10 years of apprenticeship at the desk.

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@peclif

4 months

What if you're a story someone somewhere is writing? And you're just alive because they're still writing, or are stuck. And when they're done, you'd cease to exist. But come alive when someone reads the book.

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1 month

Did you write today, or just stared, or fixed a sentence that still needs fixing, or groaned at the silence in your email, or built castles with a nonexistent acceptance, or clicked on the send button in your head and not with your fingers? Come here🫂

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@peclif

6 months

I have just received an acceptance from @The_Rumpus for an essay I've been working on in a while. 😁

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@peclif

6 months

You'll cringe at your earlier works and wish you never wrote or published them. But that's your history. You've come this far. Growth is not judgement but a testament of your beginnings and the work you've put in. After all, you didn't fall from the sky.

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3 months

2020 would remain a pivotal year in my journey as a writer. First, this story made it this far on the commonwealth short story prize; it was also the year I started getting paid for my writing. 😁

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@peclif

10 months

Dear Universe, In this year, I want to work more with writers and editors, read and edit for journals, curate and teach at creative writing workshops, travel. Come forth.

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@peclif

3 months

nonfiction- the art of nakedness: striping yourself bare and standing in the market square.

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@peclif

8 months

Maybe, you are just scared of writing it badly. But the waste basket is your friend. She accepts any number of badly written texts. That's your burnt offering. To write is to peel yourself layer by layer until you become clean. Cheers to writing.✌️

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6 months

I'm usually asked: How do I become a writer? 1. Writing is HARD. It’s a skill you develop over time. Mostly alone and at desk. Forget about talent. Stamina, patience, perseverance, audacity, community, solitude, rejections, grace are your bedfellows.

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@peclif

6 months

For you whose wine is books, unread pile towers Burj Khalifa, current read lives in a bookstore, forfeits meals for blurbs, dirges unbought books, rich by borrowing books, poor by lending, dates characters of old books - Happy World Book Day.

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@peclif

6 months

the audacity of this one-sentence chapter shows what the first sentence of a story should possess: the ability to stand alone. stories with strong beginnings have this in common. plus, the writer's - akwaeke emezi - command of language is obvious.

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@peclif

9 months

Hello #writers . Share links to your published stories - fiction, nonfiction. And poetry. I'd love to read. Cheers.

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@peclif

5 months

Sometimes, you have to consider that the story you are writing is going to be someone else's redemption. It's not about you.

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3 months

Writing is also not writing. Writing is living - boredom, volunteering, learning a new thing, building/completing a task, sleeping, travelling, falling in/out of love, taking up space, checking in on someone...

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@peclif

9 months

How to write a new story: sit before the blank page. Accept that something wants to speak through you. Do not think about the story or its form. Do not try to control or dress it in some perfect gown. Do not even worry about the title. At least, for...

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@peclif

5 months

You'll doubt your story. Write it, anyway.

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3 months

Be so good at your writing that you can't be unseen.

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7 months

How to write the story: 😁😁 -Fidget with ideas. Pick one or two. - Dress them up in your head. Rehears a number of times. Smile at how stunning the lines are. -Go to the desk. Sit for hours searching for the words and sentences you thought you had.

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@peclif

7 months

Writing is blank page, word struggle, trash lines, rejections. Quit, be unknown. Stuck. Grind or perish. Your body gives a middle finger. Then, you write a fine thing. It gets published. She divorces you for the reader. And the blank page courts again.

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@peclif

5 months

Write the bad sentence. Rewriting is your friend.

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@peclif

4 months

It's how editors and readers say they love my voice. 🥹

Ifeanyichukwu.

@peclif

6 months

I have just received an acceptance from @The_Rumpus for an essay I've been working on in a while. 😁

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4 months

So, you love that writer's work? Tell them.

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2 months

Writing is music too. Meaning lives where sound sings. Poetry sings in prose. Prose dances in poetry.

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6 months

For you struggling with your writing, I hope you don't dwell in how others have gone ahead and you're not good enough, or you are not and have told yourself but are still clueless. Still, it means you know what your heart beats for. Don't fold.

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6 months

How to get published in literary journals 😁 1. Write. 2. Rewriting is the writing. Your first draft is like a story grandma told you while you were asleep. You're awake now. Rework. Keep at it even after a ton of rejections.

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6 months

Read those old, boring books. They are the fountain. Wisdom is in the old. You learn how to face boredom. Don't stop at what's popular. Go deeper. You're more powerful when sit at table with those who have gone and those who are still carrying the light.

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3 months

Your first draft is like a story you listened to asleep. Now, you are awake.

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4 months

The story deserves your patience. You are not just writing but making art.

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6 months

Circular sentences are clogs. Eg. I dreamt of a dead kitten. I had a bad dream. (The second sentence repeats the first. No movement) I dreamt of a dead kitten. I've been pulling at my hair since I woke up. (This goes into the feeling. That's movement) ✌️

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1 month

Think about your sentences as living things. What do living things do? Activity. What activity? "The man is crying." But that's not the story. What does the cry do or reveal? Think effect and affect. Imagery. Can we relate it to anything?

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@peclif

5 months

for lessons on sentencing, precision, movement, and clarity, this book is a good teacher. fun fact: it always reads as nonfiction for me.😁 who else read(s) it as such? 🤔

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@peclif

3 months

The goal is not necessarily to write a good sentence but to go through the terribleness of writing one. That's steadfastness. And it breeds intimacy with craft.

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2 months

The only cliche that is not a cliche: Write. Just write.

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3 months

There are many ways to die. Writing is one of them. And you choose to write?

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@peclif

9 months

Hello Writers, Send a paragraph of something you are working on. Perhaps, the first. I'd offer edits. Necessary feedbacks too. It's fun. #editing #miniworkshop ✌️

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@peclif

8 months

One of my favourite things is teaching creative writing. Talent abound among these young ones.😁

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2 months

Sometimes, once the first sentence or paragraph or beginning is not right, the story struggles.

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7 months

Can't we just like someone and they like us and we like our way into a noiseless chuckle? And while the world buzzes for a date, we already have a family? And while they tinker with whether it's a rumour, we're already building schools and libraries?

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@peclif

3 months

Sometimes, the goal of sending the story out is to detach. Or gauge its strength. The distance affords you to see what's missing, unnecessary, or vague. If a rejection comes, it wouldn't matter as you'd have moved to a better version of the story.

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@peclif

1 month

If you are not sure, use a short sentence.

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@peclif

3 months

Here in Nsukka. And I intend to do creative writing workshops on campus - a series of it, hopefully. For writers at all levels. You just come with your pen and paper. 😊

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@peclif

5 months

You want them to mentor you? Read their work. That might be all the mentorship you need.

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@peclif

1 year

I have a short story in the latest edition of Efiko Magazine. Enjoy the read. Like A Pawn

Like A Pawn - Efiko Magazine

“Oh, woman wahala o. The boyfriend of one lady I wrote exam for says I have snatched his girl. Is it my fault that the boyfriend cannot satisfy his girl?”

efikomag.com

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@peclif

10 months

@EEgwuono Both. Writing: Rewriting is the actual writing. The story awaits you at, say, the tenth draft. Reading: Imagination feeds on language. Read, especially the classics, old texts. Go further than what everyone else reads. Miscellaneous: Keep a journal.

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7 months

A lesson in creative writing - Our faces are sentences. Faces show us without saying a thing. A good sentence does not chatterbox. It shows. More so, what it does not say is as loud as what it says. Cheers to writing.

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10 months

1. Hold your reader from the title. Your titles are like signposts or keys to the story. What does a signpost do to you? What do keys do? 2. The first sentence is like a door into the story. Think about entering into mansion, a haunted house in the bush...

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@peclif

10 months

I am honoured to have my short story on @JoylandMagazine . It was a pleasure working with the editor, Walker Caplan. 😊

Joyland Magazine

@JoylandMagazine

10 months

"Though Buba sees the sun again, his heart sits in his mouth, peering at every stare and gesture, twitching at every chitchat and chuckle." —from 'Baptism' by Ifeanyichukwu Eze

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1 year

I thank @GuernicaMag for giving this piece a beautiful home. Guernica: Lucky Were the Bodies via @GuernicaMag

Lucky Were the Bodies

Armed soldiers were stationed here and there. Grannies wondered why we remained in the north. We should come home.

www.guernicamag.com

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10 months

3. Write about things that matter to you. If you don’t feel your story, the reader is likely not going to. 4. Every word must count; every sentence must be necessary just as carpenters use woods or builders use blocks.

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6 months

If you’re a first time author, and have a complete manuscript – novel, poetry, short story collection – the chances of getting a publisher can be hard, and harder if you have no prior publication credit, especially for a short story / poetry collection...

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9 months

writer = writing = rewriting. repeat.✌️

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3 months

writing humbles you. first: you genuflect before the waste basket, and offer your draft(s) for sheets of tabular rasa. then, you go back to the desk. on repeat. 😁

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9 months

Editing Kit. 1. Ockham's Razor. Can the story work without this or that sentence/line? Yes? Delete. No? Leave. 2. Read aloud. You'll hear what's missing and what needless. Plus spelling errors. 3. Repeat 1 and 2. ✌️

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6 months

The story you are writing is (might be) waiting for you at the tenth draft. But you are on the second draft. Or first? That's writing teaching you stamina and patience and humility.

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5 months

Your writerly life it seems, won’t wear the feel of a real life because everyone else is living the dream – the defined way. So, you are up against a tide already. But courage tells you what to define as living.

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@peclif

8 months

I love first sentences and how they set the pace. Here are some from contemporary novels. Do share yours. A thread. 😉👇

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5 months

A reader reminded me of this piece. I am grateful to @agbowoart for publishing it, and to all readers who have found solace in it. 😁

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1 year

I am proud of this essay. Thank you @theoffingmag for giving it a home. Also, do enjoy the read.😊

Holding Water - The Offing

Essay - The Offing Magazine

theoffingmag.com

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4 months

This is sweet from One Story. 😊

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3 months

Sometimes, you interfer with the story by just narrating and the character gets detached from the plot. How about you turn the narration into an introspective outflow from the character or situation? The story, not you, should be the driver. Listen.

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4 months

Some day, you look back and be glad the story was rejected.

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10 months

Miscellaneous: Writing is Hard. Like very Hard. But you will discover as you write, the things that are peculiar to your craft. They'd keep you going.

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7 months

While you look for rules about writing, pay attention to what your desk teaches you. It also means there are no rules but one: write.

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7 months

Say something without saying it: Write such that what you are not saying is as loud as what you have said. That's the house of silence the reader dwells in.

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10 months

If you struggle with *showing* in your writing, this might help. 😊 Think about it this way. A strand of hair is stuck between Umar’s upper teeth. But his mouth is not open. The goal is to do with words what, say, a painter would do with a scenery.

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6 months

Those adjectives and adverbs hinder you from the writing. They tease you with bottles of wine without uncorking them. 1. Imagine they (adjectives and adverbs) don't exist. 2. Say hi the hard workers, verbs. You'd be forced to write. Cheers.

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7 months

and god said, let there be light, and there was writer. let there be light and there was blank page. let there be light and in the fifth year, there was a first draft.

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5 months

Poetry as nonfiction in miniskirt. 😁

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7 months

If the sentence is not working, create a myth.

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1 year

ThIs here is one of my favourite acceptances. It's a warm hug from @The_Rumpus . I come back to it always. I also enjoyed working with the editor. 😊

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10 months

5. Your sentence has a soul. That’s what the reader connects to. Your goal is to be interesting or make the reader feel something. 6. Write in your own voice. Your voice is what you hear when you are alone or trying to move through a crowd.

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2 months

The sentence you have written and deleted and rewritten and deleted again and rewritten again and deleted again and want to rewrite again and the blank page pokes you a numb. Hello. You are still writing. Rewrite, anyway.

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7 months

One of my favourite lines from an 'Orchestra of Minorities' by Chigozie Obioma. I love the book for what it does with the metaphysics of Chi. Share - if you've read it - your favourite lines, or from other books. 😁

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1 year

This nonfiction piece has journeyed well. Grateful to @agbowoart for saying yes to it. Boulders of gods | Ifeanyichukwu Peter Eze via @agbowoart

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5 months

I come often to drink the sentences here. I love the deliberateness of each line. The music they render. Well, poetry refines our experience of the world; bestows on us the impetus to create new language, new worlds. It's the loftiness.

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6 months

How to make it easier for the editor to reject your work. 1. Don't follow guidelines 2. Don't read the magazine. 3. Send the draft you wrote while asleep 4. Trust the editor will clean up the work 5. Throw the 'Dear Editor' into the bin

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this initial phase. Write a word, then another, and another. Do not worry about sense. 500 words a day or even less is an achievement. Next day, review and add. Keep at it until you have what you may call a story. Rewriting happens afterwards.

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The book/writing recommendations you need might just be the ones you neglect. Maybe too, you don't trust your tastes/voice. Recommendations, if necessary, come as alignments to your tastes/ voice. Ask: What am I reading? What have I read? What do I need?

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11 months

Read the old, old books. Read the classics. Reads the religious texts.

Ụmụnnanwezuoakụ

@ChimezieChika1

11 months

Let's do this. Reading 101:

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13. Your story can take any structure. But at least, it should answer the following questions: •What’s the story about? •Who is the protagonist/main character? •What are they (main character) faced with? ( This is the conflict)

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5 months

if the story is not working, ask: what am I not confronting? where lies my discomfort? how can I be more specific? how real am I?

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As an editor, I'm here to work with you through your manuscript. Prose: fiction and nonfiction; poetry. Send a message. Let's clean up your work.✌️

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3. To write, you must read. And still read. Books are mentors. They teach all you need to know – craft, language, sentencing, and all. Read, read, read, read, and read and keep reading. You can’t give what you don’t have.

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The more the story stays with you, the more she unwraps layers which are refreshing and scary and draining. And would gather you rejections. But that's what she wants - to exhaust you with all of her herself until she's clean for an acceptance.

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