I should also mention that the hardest thing for many writers to do is cut prose. Each sentence sounds sooooo cool. That writer may have sweated over those curtain slapping, gut buckling stenches for days. Now some editor comes along and says, 'Too much, cut." WHAT???? THEY ARE GREAT SENTENCES! They TOTALLY ROCK.
And each one is fine. But together, they stink. (Pun intended.)
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