Express Yourself

How to Be Edited Without Losing Your Mind

You may disagree with your editor, but they’re (probably) right

Eileen Pollack
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readMay 27, 2020

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Welcome to The Draft, an advice column about writing and life from Eileen Pollack, former director of the University of Michigan MFA Program. We’re here to answer your questions about storycraft, writing, and telling the truth.

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Eileen Pollack
Human Parts

Eileen is the author, most recently, of Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman