Overwriting: Relax, You’re Trying Too Hard

by | Aug 8, 2016 | The Writing Craft

Many years ago—long before my editing days—I was reading my hot-off-the-press copy of Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides. (Before lights out, in bed, where I still do my pleasure reading.) There was one paragraph (among many) that was so exquisite, so perfect, that I...