(highlight:: Improving your Writing: Write for an Editor and Write for Acceptance/Rejection
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One of the things i always tell people, because it was my experience, is that in order to get the deliberate practice aspect of skill acquisition applied to writing, if you want to get Better at writing fast, you have to be writing for edit and you have to be writing in the context of acceptance and rejectionsbut because writing is one of these things where everyone Can do it well enough that if you're mainly just writing on your own. So i'm writing in a journal, i'm writing a blog, i'm doing national novel writing month. Is just me, you know, working on my novel. You don't necessarily get that stretch that's going to improve your skills. And so the thing that mattered for me is that i was writing for editing and for acceptance and rejection. For editing meaning writing for an editor. You have an editor, reader, yes, an editor who's going to edit it, and also will reject it if it's not good.)
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