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Revising the rules

HE MOST CURIOUS THING ABOUT writing is how many different ways there are to go about it. Everyone writing in English works by arranging the same 26 letters of the alphabet on the page, but we all arrive at the same destination in such varied ways. For every nine writers who will tell you to never-ever- revise as you go, there will be one who must thoroughly polish each sentence before moving on to the next. For every staunch

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