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  1. F

    New - how do I know if it's any good?

    After five years of on and off writing, and re-drafting, with the creative excitement of plot twists and suspense, then a year of editing down 'til it bleeds, I'm left with no objectivity. Is it still a unique beautiful, tragic, story, or is it nothing? How do you gauge what you're left with...
    • Felicity Wallis
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    • editing finishing objectivity
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Café Life
  2. Jay Aitch

    Doubts, like louts, are all about.

    When working at editing and reworking your writing, does anyone else become overwhelmed with doubts that it is all tripe, balderdash and piffle, unreadable fluff?
    • Jay Aitch
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    • doubts editing rewriting working alone writing
    • Replies: 33
    • Forum: Café Life
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