“Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.” – Stanley Schmidt
“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it – and delete it before sending your manuscript to the press.” – Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
“No tale tells all.” – Alexei Panshin
“A story isn’t about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.” – W. D. Wetherell
“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.” ― C.S. Lewis
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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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