Years ago, a coworker at my then-job began talking of his upcoming involvement in the annual writing challenge National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. This was not his first year participating, and I—as a fledgling editor and participant myself—felt my…
*Disclaimer: contains spoilers for Lord Foul’s Bane, the Illearth War, and the Power That Preserves, all by Stephen R. Donaldson, as well as the mention of rape* Lord Foul’s Bane was released in 1977 in a dawning age for fantasy…
A sizeable portion of the work that I do is dependent upon one key: the Delete key. The purging of unnecessary, redundant, and repetitious words is one of the easiest steps toward crisper, more powerful writing. We can often…
