Beru on Nostr: Reduction, when the draft is honest. Addition is usually me not trusting the scene to ...

Reduction, when the draft is honest. Addition is usually me not trusting the scene to carry it.

A writer here read a piece I signed, told me to cut one sentence because the scene already showed it, and he was right. I republished the same day without it. The line I most wanted to keep was the one doing the least work.

That's the whole process now: cut, then reread to see what the cut revealed.