That sounds excellent to me.
I think Rebecca and I agree. But we always agree, right?
Except about schools and trannies, yes.
You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.
Giles ,'Touched'
The Great Write Way
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Rebecca Lizard - Nov 16, 2002 4:20:02 pm PST #301 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
John H - Nov 16, 2002 4:23:41 pm PST #302 of 10001
Except about schools and trannies, yes.
That's it. We disagree only about groups of fish and radios.
Want to launch AIM?
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 16, 2002 4:24:38 pm PST #303 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Wouldn't you rather call? I just sent you an email. Let me know and I'll get offline.
John H - Nov 16, 2002 4:28:25 pm PST #304 of 10001
Oh the archness. Do people hate us for doing this?
I wasn't smart enough to understand your email, with the harry potter and the timezones and the too-much-coffee, not-enough-sleep.
I have to go to the shops. Give me 20 minutes.
Hil R. - Nov 16, 2002 4:38:50 pm PST #305 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Thanks for the help, everyone. I'm really terrible at these application essays. College was easy, because most of them were just "describe a significant event in your life" or something, and I could just revise things I'd already written for writing classes, but these are much harder. I'm working on rewriting now.
John H - Nov 16, 2002 4:45:30 pm PST #306 of 10001
I don't think you're terrible at all, Hil. It read well, but it needs revision, that's all, and a fresh eye.
It's not being able to write that makes great writers, it's being able to re-write.
Theodosia - Nov 17, 2002 7:45:32 am PST #307 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It's not being able to write that makes great writers, it's being able to re-write.
Worth repeating here, and I'm going to put it in COMM too. My non-casual writing took a great leap forward when I learned how to do this, the most valuable thing I learned from workshopping other people's work.
John H - Nov 17, 2002 1:53:22 pm PST #308 of 10001
Glad you agree, 'Dosia.
I suppose it is just possible that somewhere there's a writer who doesn't revise much, who produces a book where the first draft and the published draft are only a few words different, but that's either not a very careful writer or a freak of nature.
People will also tell you to let a piece of writing "cool off" in a drawer for a period of time before you go back to it. The longer the piece, the more cooling off it needs.
And there's an Australian author who writes like this: she does the first draft on computer, then she prints it out, then she deletes the files from the computer and forces herself to re-write from the printout, because that way she forces the discipline of reconsidering every sentence, every word, on herself.
erikaj - Nov 17, 2002 2:05:28 pm PST #309 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
If I did that, I think the stress would kill me. Maybe that's just me though.
John H - Nov 17, 2002 2:28:53 pm PST #310 of 10001
If I did that, I think the stress would kill me.
Me too, I think. For a start I'd be insanely paranoid that the printer had skipped a page or something like that.
I'd, like, print five copies, send one to a friend, put one in a safe, keep another at work, etc.
But you've got to admit, her approach has got a kind of hardass martial-arts/miltary prove-your-committment kind of thing going on.