A word of caution I frequently give my editing clients is that excess repetition quickly exhausts readers’ patience. Most authors quickly get the concept.
Continued reliance on repeating the same old saws ad nauseam is a mark of midwittery and creative bankruptcy.
Whether former Disney author propagandist Chuck Wendig never had an editor who gave him that advice, or he simply can’t take it, I leave for you to judge.
We discussed this and many other pop culture topics on the latest episode of Geek Gab. Watch it here:
But it’s not all dunking on oldpub rejects. Daddy Warpig, Dorrinal, and I also talk newpub, including the smashingly successful crowdfunder for Combat Frame XSeed: S.
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