So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.

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ACAB does not include reading with an eye to AI use, and here's why I think that is true: My grandmother came to visit when I was six years old and found me standing on a chair in the kitchen, striking a match to light the stove so I could boil water to make mac and cheese and hot dogs for dinner.

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I got a little older and groceries became one of the areas of the household budget where my father gave my mother some leeway. She would drive an hour and a half each way to pick up exotic foods like feta cheese and tofu.

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We had a 9” black and white TV that we could run two or three hours a day, with two channels. One of those was PBS, which ran “how to cook” shows on the weekends. I watched and I learned.

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By the time I was a teenager, I was cooking breakfast and dinner for the household five days week. My father had particular standards, like baked unseasoned white fish at least one night per week, and no white bread.

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