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Edited Out, Part Four: Tanizaki and the Homeless Cuckoo

Edited Out, Part Four: Tanizaki and the Homeless Cuckoo

by Rebecca Copeland | Mar 1, 2023 | Mystery Fiction

Editing a manuscript can be painful. You have to be willing to cut passages that you have labored over for days, sometimes longer. Some great writer equated this process to “murdering your darlings.” You’ll hear some attribute this quotation to Ernest Hemingway....

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