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The Secret to More Efficient Revision: Pattern Recognition
As the CEO of a book coaching company with 30 book coaches serving hundreds of writers, I see a lot of stories, and I can very quickly identify the holes and weaknesses in them. This is not some kind of weird magic; it’s a simple case of pattern recognition. The truth is that while every writer is unique and every project is unique, the mistakes that writers make are actually quite similar. If I am doing a rejection audit to determine why a novel keeps getting rejected, for example, I can guarantee that I will see a pattern of these kinds of...