James Finn
1 min readOct 14, 2020

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My literary agent knows what prepositions are. And she doesn’t care if I end sentences with them either. ;-)

But boy howdy does she ever care if I use too many adjectives! Lol. Or if my story is boring.

I will never forget one of her first emails to me. She got my attention when she said, “This story is fast-paced and exciting, but tone it down, Purple Prince. If you need three adjectives to describe something, you’re going to turn off your readers. Clean it up!”

Oops.

I had to really work at my writing style after reading that. And I think it made a big difference for the better.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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