A tweet from novelist Megan Collins, author of Behind the Red Door (Bookshop|Amazon) and The Winter Sister (Bookshop|Amazon), is one every writer will appreciate. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A Too-True Comment On A Writer’s Endless Tweaking”
Novelist Megan Collins is the author of The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door.
And she’s also the author of a tweet that I just loved. And if you do any writing at all, perhaps you can identify with it. She tweeted, “If you haven’t emailed someone saying, ‘Wait, read this draft instead,’ are you even a writer?”
Grant, I guess I’m a writer.
Yeah, me too.
Several times over.
Yeah, like the flurry of drafts that you send in the space of a very short time.
And they’re all labeled like final, no, real final, no, absolutely final, final, final, final.
Right. You’re sitting there trying to think of more ways to make it stand out in a person’s email, right?
All caps, exclamation marks.
Lots of punctuation, asterisks.
You see, is there a higher level than the more important setting in the email?
Most important.
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