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You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. A couple of weeks

ago we talked about breaking up. Specifically, how do you decide when it's time to break up with a book?

Maybe you've given it 10 pages or 20 or 50. Grant, you said you gave them a hundred, right?

And but you decide that it's just not working for you. What do you do?

Well, we heard from a lot of you who said you were really relieved to hear that conversation because you felt less guilty about deciding to move on.

But my favorite email came from John Benbow.

John lives in San Diego and he said he has a term for this when he breaks up with a book.

He calls it post-publication editing.

Isn't that great?

And he says that he considers post-publication editing necessary in the absence of

good pre-publication editing.

And he adds, many a book should have been an essay.

Many an essay should have been a paragraph.

Many a paragraph should have been a sentence.

Isn't that great? And he puts it. paragraph should have been a sentence.

Isn't that Granny, Poetry?

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