How To Cut 140,000 Words From Your Book

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September 12, 2006

Know More: Editing, Web Journalism, Writing Resources 2.0, Editing

"Kids, if you're writing a book, don't tell yourself blithely that 'all this can be trimmed down later...'"

That's some understated editing advice from Alex Ross. Besides being one of my favorite music critics and a New Yorker writer, he runs a blog charting the progress on his forthcoming book about music in the 20th century.

This post explains how Ross methodically cut down his book from 390,000 words to 250,000 words in 20 months. That's like chopping off an entire extra book, just to give you some idea of the mind-boggling work involved in writing a Big Book.

Three cheers for Edward Champion for pointing this out...

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