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Creative Adrenaline for Writers: Five Tips on How to Edit Your Story for Style, Economy and Flow II

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Read aloud as you are editing. Reading your fiction or non-fiction story aloud is a powerful editing tool to find road-bumps and obstructions that you might otherwise miss. It’s effective, also, in developing a sense of flow throughout the story. Reading aloud also helps to link the intuitive mind, with the analytical mind, and your descriptions, word economy and strength of plot will all shine for it.

Creativity is a doorway through which we allow ourselves to engage with the world on our terms.

The Kingdom of Young Minds – A Doorway to Other Worlds

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This forest was the kingdom of young minds, a mecca of make-believe, the like of which, the mere act of entering the trail mouth was a portal to boundless worlds of youthful imagination. Adventures were mitigated only by our limited experience, owing to our short time on this earth.