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Ronnie Said:

Need some some serious help with question about an Essay?

We Answered:

You probably could do it the way you do any other piece of writing: you write it long, and then cut it down to size. If you write 1500 words, it'll be easy to get 750 good words out of it; if you aim for 750, you might wind up with what's essentially air and puff taking up a lot of your space.

Here's what Stanley Ellin had to say (talking about fiction, but it goes for all writing):

Unvarnished Fact Number Two -- there never has been, nor will be, a first draft of a fiction piece which cutting can't improve. And, as I have slowly and grudgingly learned over too many years, it does get easier as you go along. Just a word here and a word there to start with -- adjectives, especially, invite expunging -- and then it begins to appear that this whole passage, even this whole page, is not really adding anything to characterization or narrative despite its brilliant phrasing, and so on and so on until one revels in the full masochistic pleasure of wholesale excision. (from The Mystery Writer's Handbook)

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Beth Said:

can anyone help give me ideas for my college essay?

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You can pretty much write about anything that made an influence in your life. I would definitely stay away from sensitive matters like religion and politics.

Mark Said:

Any ideas for writing a book?

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The convicted rapist is innocent. He was framed by the police inspector in charge of his case. The girl discovers this and is then in danger from the the real rapist: the police inspector.

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