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I have a better understanding of how to write books than how to revise them

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Naomi K
Jul 23, 2014
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I've written first drafts of lots of books, but I've only ever brought two books from first draft to submittable form. And in both cases, it was a bit of a haphazard process. With This Beautiful Fever, I did real editing. In fact, I deleted the whole first third of the book and rewrote it. But with Enter Title Here, I did surprisingly little. Most of wh…

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