Episode
108
Episode 108
Craft
Editing is mostly deleting
with Lena Marquardt
47 min
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Editing is mostly deleting
Lena Marquardt
00:0047 min
Show notes
Lena on cutting 40% of every issue, and the letters she gets about it.
Mentioned in this episode: the studio, the book we keep recommending, and the one question we ask every guest. Links below.
Chapters
00:00
Cold open
03:22
How it started
21:40
The red pen
38:05
Readers who write back
From the transcript
Host: So where does it start, for you? With the first sketch, or before that?
Guest: Before. It starts when I notice I keep coming back to the same problem. The sketch is just the moment I admit it.