What to Cut, Keep, and Change: A Live Fiction Edit

Bryan and Pete offer up a live edit of one of Pete’s dark fantasy stories, working through the prose one sentence at a time. Along the way, they explore tightening sentences, cutting unnecessary words, trusting your reader, and what writers can learn from talking through an edit instead of simply accepting or rejecting changes.

Chapters

00:00 Introductions
02:24 The Resurrection of Timaeus
03:38 Tightening the Prose
09:20 When to Push Back on an Edit
13:30 Trust Your Reader
20:15 Reordering a Sentence
23:30 When Good Writing Could Be Better
32:25 Worldbuilding Without Explaining
36:10 The Value of Talking Through an Edit
38:28 Outro

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