Deadlines

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Write Fast

“[Novelist] Russell Banks keeps part of an old gravestone in his office, inscribed with the epitaph ‘Remember Death.’ There’s nothing more inspiring than the awareness that time is short, and that the ultimate deadline is soon approaching.” 

—Joe Fassler, writer, “I talked to 150 writers and here’s the best advice they had,” LitHub, Oct. 26, 2017

• Editorial Comment: Editors don’t finish editing; they just run out of time.


• Related:

On a grave from the 1880s on Nantucket, Massachusetts:

Under the sod and under the trees

Lies the body of Edward Pease.

He is not here, there's only the pod:

Pease shelled out and went to God.

PeezPix by Ted Pease

Writer’s Cubicle








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