The Anatomy of a Kill: Stripping Prose Down to the Bone I usually live by the rule of "Do Not Revise." Get it down, get it done, move on.

I thought my death scene was deep until I was told I was "dragging a corpse through molasses." 💀

I stripped 100 words of fluff down to 39 words of raw nerve.

Here is exactly how to fix purple prose and make violence hurt.

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#WritersOfBlueSky #Editing #Grimdark

Sapphire Gradient It costs ten nails to dig a grave.

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