“Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.” – Delmore Schwartz
“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.” – Raymond Chandler
“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.” – Paula Danziger
“The glory of a good tale is that it’s limitless and fluid…” – Stephen King
“In good writing, words become one with things.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.