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 Message 143,627 of 144,799 
 Kevin C to Brian M. Scott 
 Re: How do you revise? 
 22 Sep 14 16:41:24 
 
From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com

On Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:23:54 PM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:
> I expect that the first rewrite was the completely different
>
> version that allowed Kevin to ditch the first three
>
> versions; that could certainly reduce the length by half.
>
> Correcting typos and continuity problems and clunky text
>
> could account for a thousand words, mostly from the repair
>
> of clunky text.

Yes. I did another rewrite where I changed the ending and punched up the
action, but it trimmed too much. Now I've got to carefully add back some of
what I deleted.

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