Every writer has a sentence they are afraid to keep. The one that goes too far, reaches for something excessive, or refuses to behave the way the rest of the draft does.
What I have come to understand about that sentence, after sitting with it long enough, is that it is usually the most important one on the page.
This Tuesday on Ramos On Craft, I write about outrage, foolishness, and the misbehaving draft, and what a Frankfurt School philosopher doing double duty as the moral authority of a heist novel can teach us about the writing we are most tempted to cut.
The full article is waiting for you at Ramos On Craft on Substack.
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