“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress…”
– Nick Hornby#amwriting #writingcommunity
— Brendan Zornig (@BrendanZornig) September 7, 2022
In Ann Hood’s workshop, she tells students to “blow it up.” Same idea. Oh, how we resist!