Don’t Share Your Writing Drafts with These People (3 types)
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Don’t Share Your Writing Drafts with These People (3 types)

This morning, as I started yet another round of edits to my novel in progress, I thought, “Couldn’t I just hire someone to read and edit for me? Let them scribble all these notes and reminders in the margins.

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Ditch that Messy Draft. Embrace the Blank Writing Page.
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Ditch that Messy Draft. Embrace the Blank Writing Page.

Should I write a new draft? Or throw my writing away?

Yesterday I decided to dust off an old, Thanksgiving holiday-themed essay. It had already been drafted and re-drafted, so (I convinced myself) it would only take an hour to edit, fix and pitch.

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