The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you’ll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you’ll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you’ll see stuff that’s long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good. . Dan Alatorre
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More Quotes By Dan Alatorre
  1. Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.
  2. Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.
  3. I take the rawest, realest moments in anyone’s life and I open them up and lay them bare. The innocence of a five year old child, the awkwardness of a teenager’s first sexual encounter, the heartbreak of longing for a relationship you can’t have, confronting...
  4. Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You’ll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or...
  5. You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.
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