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  1. What is the one thing you struggle to cut from your drafts? Is it a specific character, a favorite scene, or perhaps a piece of world-building you’re too attached to let go?

    #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #Writing #Editing #WritingCraft #SelfEditing #IndieAuthor

  2. Most writers skip the hard part: self-editing. They think a good story is enough. It's not.

    The new issue of Foundations breaks down why rigorous self-editing is the only real path to a sustainable career.

    "A well-edited book builds trust. Trust builds a backlist. A backlist builds a career."

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    #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #Writing #Editing #WritingCraft #SelfEditing #IndieAuthor

  3. 🎩✨ In this riveting tale, a wannabe wizard of code reveals his groundbreaking, 🚀 earth-shattering discovery: #programs can... wait for it... edit their own text files! 🧙‍♂️📜 This is neither #metaprogramming nor magic, just a wild journey back to 1960s computing. Who needs a REPL when you can have a self-obsessed code editor? 🤡💻
    ianthehenry.com/posts/my-kind- #wizardofcode #selfediting #1960scomputing #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated