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In the upcoming Sunday Book Review, Anna Holmes discusses some of the rookie mistakes she made as a new writer:
I regret many things, including, but not limited to:
Inserting myself into reported narratives where I didn’t belong.
Crafting long, complex sentences that I thought made me sound intelligent and sophisticated.
Assuming that aggressive, masculine-sounding prose was the ideal style of writing because it was so frequently rewarded in my literature and composition classes.
Taking too long to get to the point.
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