It is Christmas! (Also some thoughts about point of view in novels)
I just finished an hour of work on the novel, and I cut another 220 words. Every day feels like so little progress, but I've so far cut over 4100 words from a 40,000 word novel!!! And I'm only a bit over halfway through. Whenever I do this cutting, I sometimes wonder that the language is becoming too clipped, but then I go over and read through it at t…
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