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Spring cleaning

It’s not only our houses that could usually do with a good clean and polish in spring. As the days are getting longer, and as we’re all doing our best to shake off our winter lethargy – okay, as I personally am doing my best to shake off my own winter lethargy – I find it’s a good time to think about spring cleaning my writing, too.

All those cobwebs of redundant adjectives and adverbs, all that dust of repetition, all those carefully-crafted episodes that don’t actually advance my story line – at some point in the process

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