Deborah Barchi
Deborah Barchi

Mar 19, 2020

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…If you don’t love it, cut it. By the way, loving it is necessary but not sufficient for keeping it. Sometimes you should cut it even if you do love it because the cut serves the piece as a whole. (See mistake 3 and 6!) In humor writing, as in all writing, love is great — but love is not enough.

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Alex Baia

Tough but good advice!

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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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