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Reading & Books	What you notice about sentences after a lifetime of reading After about forty years of reading, I stopped seeing sentences as containers. I stopped asking what they were carrying and started asking how they were built. Graeme Brown	Jun 29
Writing & Editing	What editing other people's writing teaches you about your own Most writers assume they learn to write by writing. That's partly true, but it's incomplete. Brendan Brown	Jun 27
Creative Process	The editor's paradox: why caring too much can ruin your writing A writer we worked with once spent eleven months on a 4,000-word essay. Not researching it, not waiting on permissions — eleven months circling the same opening, deleting it, rebuilding it, deleting it again. Global English Editing Editorial Team	Jun 25
Reading & Books	What serious readers do differently — and why it makes them better writers Hand a manuscript back to a writer with a single note in the margin — "you've been reading a good deal of Cormac McCarthy lately, haven't you? Graeme Brown	Jun 24
Communication	Giving feedback on someone's writing without damaging the relationship A writer hands me a draft and says, "Be honest, tear it apart." They almost never mean it. Brendan Brown	Jun 23
Writing & Editing	Why your first draft is supposed to be bad (and what that means for how you write) A writer hands us a manuscript and apologises before we have read a word. The opening chapter is rough, she says, she knows it, she nearly rewrote it four times before sending it. Global English Editing Editorial Team	Jun 21