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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. Balancing a demanding corporate career with the grueling, slow-burn work of structural edits on a novel is a constant tug-of-war. You fight the clock, you fight mental exhaustion, and in the background sits that persistent hum of guilt: the feeling that taking a few days…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. There is a distinct phase in revision when digital documents betray you. When a project reaches critical mass, the sheer volume of text overwhelms the screen, and the story must be radically simplified to be understood. When a manuscript grows to a certain length, scrolling…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. There’s something both exhilarating and disorienting about standing this close to the end of a book. Right now, I’m deep in the rewrite of Chapter 12 which is my Frankenstein chapter. It’s a careful stitching together of old material and new insight, pulling from what once…
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By Peggy Arthur Greetings, readers, writers, and everyone in between. When we learn early American history, the story usually moves in one direction, north toward freedom or west across the frontier. But after traveling through South Carolina’s Lowcountry and into St. Augustine, Florida, I discovered a different path entirely. One that runs south. My journey…
