Daily Writing #39: Expression Is Compression

As West Side Story lyricist Stephen Sondheim once said: “You have to throw out good stuff to get the best stuff.”

Full-time authors, for example, don’t actually type for 40 hours per week because they’d have little to say if they did. Instead, they spend most of their time collecting experiences. By the time they sit down to write, they’ve already experienced what they plan to write about, even if they aren’t entirely sure about what they’re going to say. By s