You were fortunate to get such good feedback from a friend when you were starting out.

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As you pointed out, objective, informative, and kind feedback is the key

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You’re right that we need to cut out unneeded words in both fiction and nonfiction. Though this article was focused on fiction, it applies equally to nonfiction.

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It is always surprising how much we can cut out, isn’t it? And it’s always easier to cut someone else’s work than it is our own.

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I took a novel writing class one time where the instructor said over and over again somthing that made a huge impression on me: the first draft is always “pure green dreck” but you have to write the dreck before you can turn it into something good.

I know many people who want to be writers but who never succeed because they give up when their first attempts are less than stellar. Accept the fact that the first draft—and maybe the second and third and fourth—will probably be awful, but you need to go through that stage.

Thanks for the inspiration.

P.S.) My wife’s name is Lillie

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Repetition is an important issue—some repetition can be effective but too much does reflect badly on our writing. That would be an interesting topic for another post.

I would like to reflect on how effectively do we use repetition into our writings. That leaves a bad impression, as well as lengthen the content.