- Enter scenes late and leave them early, particularly conversation scenes.
- Trust your readers to fill in details you don’t supply.
- Cut down the number of scenes.
- Cut down the number of characters.
- Cut down the number of subplots.
- Reduce the complexity of the main plot.
- Tell, don’t show, some of the story.
- Start the story closer to the end and just fill in the necessary backstory.
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