Pull out your page from last week’s boot-camp.
Once writing has had time to sit, it gets easier to see what’s stinky and rotten, what’s strong, what’s true and vulnerable… It’s less close to you. It’s easier to work on.
Pull out your prose, and eliminate the purple bits. Edit out the modifiers. Modifiers are words that limit verbs and nouns… typically adverbs and adjectives.
And put back the ones you can’t live without.
Rewrite. Cull. Excise repetitive prose. Expand ideas that resonate somewhere in your gut.
