How Editors Know if Your Writing Is Good

Editors want to be sucked into a story, and they can usually tell after just a few lines if that's likely to happen. Writers and editors Victor Dwyer and Charlotte Gill were at The Banff Centre as the Literary Journalism program's editors. They sat down with Ian Brown to talk about modern writing in 2014. Follow the Banff Centre: Facebook:   / thebanffcentre   Twitter:   / thebanffcentre   Website: https://banffcentre.ca

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