When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “…

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When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. ✨ Stephen King (2002). On Writing, p.47, Simon and Schuster
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