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Eating your peas

Eating your peas

In this metaphor, the nutrition is in revision but it can still be mushy and unpleasant sometimes. Like peas!

Mar 10, 2025
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Hey, Runners!

Hopefully y’all are moving along on your revisions and that it’s going well! Right now, you’re probably about at the middle of the book, and that’s when things tend to get muddy during Drafting. For me, the muddy middle is when Revision kicks in, because I can look at all the nothing really happening and find opportunities to tweak, to expa…

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