“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” – Red Smith, sportswriter

“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” – Elmore Leonard, novelist and screenwriter

“The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer, author

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it, and the writing will be just as it should be.” – Mark Twain

“A writer’s mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.” – Ethel Wilson, fiction author

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.