... shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know then there is a hole in the story." He continued to say, The Old Man and the Sea could have been over a thousand pages long and had every character in the village in it and all the processes of the way they made their living, were born ... , educated, bore children, etc. That is done excellently and well by other writers. In your writing you are limited by what ... ...

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