A professor at Harvards entire course is dedicated to the refinement process. You start with what they call “write your best story”. Every assignment afterward

A professor at Harvards entire course is dedicated to the refinement process. You start with what they call “write your best story”. Every assignment afterward is the removal of something unnecessary from the original story. Each assignment is not adding to, but subtracting. Each word and sentence must matter. Painful but rewarding.