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An essay on writing by Raymond Carver [1] (as well as pretty much anything by Raymond Carver and authors he mentions in the essay :)). It's about good fiction writing, but, I think, good to keep in mind for writing in general.

[1] https://bryanafern.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/on-writing-ra...

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No discussion of Carver is complete without mentioning his relationship with editor Gordon Lish.

>Carver had been up all night reviewing Lish’s severe editorial cuts––two stories had been slashed by nearly seventy per cent, many by almost half; many descriptions and digressions were gone; endings had been truncated or rewritten––and he was unnerved to the point of desperation.

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