Writing Advice

Editing is a graffitied rust belt paper mill where you shove your lanky manuscript into a wood chipper, gather the pulp into a polluted stew, dry and press pages for hours like laboring nuns, and see which words have been kept on the page. Don’t worry; they will be some words left there, like tea leaves at the bottom of the cup.

The next step is to illuminate on your fine/fancy paper, send it to the friend who promised to read it. While they have it, lost it, forgotten about it, try to write what your remember on George RR Martin’s old Macintosh.

That’s the version you’ll try to sell.

When you get feedback, you’ll want to go back to the wood chipper.

But really you need to go down to the gas station and tell the guy making the fried chicken about the story, and if he doesn’t fall asleep from over exhaustion and boredom, honey, you’re doing great.