The Golden Rule of Editing

Let your readers fill in the blanks

Chandrayan Gupta
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
4 min readOct 1, 2021

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If I’m being transparent, I never paid much attention to editing. I still don’t, at least not to the extent other writers seem to. But I’ve come to appreciate the importance of re-reading and altering some of the more problematic sections of my work.

I’ve also never taken a professional editing course. What I’m about to discuss is…

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Chandrayan Gupta
Writers’ Blokke

4x Psychological Crime Thriller Author | 385+ Articles and 5x Top Writer on Medium | Instagram: chandrayan_gupta