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Carrie Jones
Oct 12, 2024
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Hello! It’s the paid post for paying subscribers. Thank you all for supporting me. It really means so much. I know $5 a month to you might not seem like a big deal, but to me? It’s huge. So, thank you.

We’ve started a series of paid and free posts and podcast episodes about writing bestsellers. Our first post about this is here. To see them all just look up “hit novel” or “bestselling” in the search bar.

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This post, I’m going to talk a bit about simplicity.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ~William Strunk and E.B. White

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. ~Robert Stuberg

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