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When shaping a whole book loses the author's voice

I can sharpen a chapter and clean up the prose without much trouble now. But taking a whole book in my hands and shaping it, while keeping the author's own voice alive, still trips me up. I push it toward what I think it should be, then realize I've sanded off the very thing that made it theirs.

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You can edit well, but shaping a whole book without losing the author's voice still trips you.

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