This is me revising a manuscript. Toward the end, in the polishing stage. When it’s down to tweaking a word or a syllable, trying out different looks, sounds, rhythms, meanings.…View post

If you arrived here because of the free Substack “Voice Mail” post, thank you. If not, click here for context. The best way I can explain the book in the…View post

Scripting up another Voice Mail.

Took me ’til the sixth draft until I spotted the ridiculousness of this adjective and cut it: ..on a fifteen-below winter day…