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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Four
Revising
Process
Clarify
Comes
Strategies
Better
Draft
Need
Strategy
Needs
Finally
Make
Stronger
Love
Cutting

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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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