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Revising Without Losing Your Voice

Daniel Oyelaran, Senior Editor · · 8 min read

How to accept hard notes while keeping the strangeness that makes the book yours.

Voice lives in rhythm, in what a narrator notices, and in what they refuse to say. Notes rarely threaten those things.

When a note feels like an attack on voice, ask what problem the editor was solving. Then solve it your own way.

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