I've already discussed how being a visual writer is fun for assembling and living story, but not so hot when it comes to how I get it dashed down. ( Read more... )
I'm at odds on the rewrite thing. I believe every piece of my benefits from at least one rewrite, maybe two. After I'm done. Because I know that I will endlessly tinker given the chance. I let myself do so a little, mostly in the rereading of the last 1000 words or so to get back into the story. But mostly line edits. Maybe some paragraph work if it really needs it.
But I think you're right. There is a difference between a hem that can be pinned up and a bodice the you throw a flower over the rip and resewing the whole piece. Sometimes it just needs a touch-up and others it needs to be redone. Only the creator can know when each is needed, and even then a second opinion can be good. I recently thought that I'd managed to write pure feces, but my husband corrected me and helped me see that there was gold among the mud.
Just a brief note of greetings: I found your journal through 'Making Light' and enjoyed the recent posts. I have to admit I dread rewriting. Most of the editing I do is done in the process of writing the first draft. (Does that make it a meta-draft or something? I don't know.) But then again, I haven't had a lot of work published, either.
I also have to admit I haven't read your work, but don't take that in any way as a judgement - I haven't read much of anything since my children were born. I barely have time to cruise the bookstores anymore, and when I do I get depressed at the wonders lost when I left the ripe environs of Ann Arbor for the bigbox hell of Pittsburgh. I was particularly interested in your comments regarding children's fantasy. I have an idea (who doesn't?) I'm mulling over for a fantasy novel pointed at young adults.
So: Hi! Don't mind me. I'll just be over here reading.
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I'm at odds on the rewrite thing. I believe every piece of my benefits from at least one rewrite, maybe two. After I'm done. Because I know that I will endlessly tinker given the chance. I let myself do so a little, mostly in the rereading of the last 1000 words or so to get back into the story. But mostly line edits. Maybe some paragraph work if it really needs it.
But I think you're right. There is a difference between a hem that can be pinned up and a bodice the you throw a flower over the rip and resewing the whole piece. Sometimes it just needs a touch-up and others it needs to be redone. Only the creator can know when each is needed, and even then a second opinion can be good. I recently thought that I'd managed to write pure feces, but my husband corrected me and helped me see that there was gold among the mud.
Zhaneel
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I also have to admit I haven't read your work, but don't take that in any way as a judgement - I haven't read much of anything since my children were born. I barely have time to cruise the bookstores anymore, and when I do I get depressed at the wonders lost when I left the ripe environs of Ann Arbor for the bigbox hell of Pittsburgh. I was particularly interested in your comments regarding children's fantasy. I have an idea (who doesn't?) I'm mulling over for a fantasy novel pointed at young adults.
So: Hi! Don't mind me. I'll just be over here reading.
Brett Rebischke-Smith
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