5 Great Quotations about Revising

“A simple act of putting on clothes is almost impossible for me to describe without many false starts.” – Eudora Welty

“First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.” – Somerset Maugham

“One tends to write beyond what’s needed.” – James Schuyler

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” – Stephen King

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” – Robert Cormier

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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 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 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.

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A collection of six 'Storytelling 101' guidebooks by Rob Bignell, featuring varying colors and titles, including topics like writing, outlining, and formatting stories.

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