WRITING ADVICE & PUBLISHING ADVICE from Font
The Second Key: Accuracy
By Orna Ross
The Key of Accuracy turns in two different ways, depending on whether you are in the drafting phase, or in the later redrafting or editing phases.
During first draft, ask yourself…
…How can I help the reader to SEE more clearly… what is happening and where?
…How can I help the reader to HEAR more clearly… the overtones and undertones?
…How can I help the reader to TASTE more intensely… the unique flavour of this world I’m creating?
…How can I help the reader to FEEL more intensely… the conflict at stake in this sentence, this scene?
Later, when editing: take each word, each paragraph, each chapter and aim it, like an arrow, at the heart of what you mean.
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