Replay! Be Stunningly Concise: The gifts we give readers and ourselves by tossing back what’s not needed and loving it

Enter the joyful, freeing practice of guiding your writing from draft to polished vision.

In this workshop, we’ll explore

• Why Ernest Hemingway said all omissions make a work stronger

• Two gifts we give readers by learning to prune our work well—time and trust

• Three gifts we give ourselves by cutting words we’ve crafted with love, sweat, and tears—trust, the satisfying snap, and the perfectly compromised vision

• Exercises and a game to help us to compress our work like someone else wrote it and to ensure we

  • Say it only once

  • Show not or tell

  • Begin with a hook

  • Keep the mountains and other price tags to ourselves

  • Recycle the darlings

You’ll get

• The workshop slides with resource links

• Two worksheets, a game and an exercise, to help you cut with abandon

🎁 Let gifts to readers and self guide you. To watch now—plus access these BYOE workshops and resources

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Based on 20 years editing, patterns holding works back and prompts to usher them forward.

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