[stylist] stylist Digest, Vol 81, Issue 19

[James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR]

if I had two paradigms,  I could get a cup of coffee for twenty cents.
sorry.
jc


At 07:37 PM 1/12/2011, you wrote:
>Hi friends,
>
>Bridgit, everybody's process is different. For me, writing is about 
>the language. So, from the first, the words are as important as the 
>story I'm telling with them. Of course, sometimes it's necessary to 
>get the story germ down as quickly as possible before I forget it.
>
>That leads me to my second point. For me, writing and rewriting 
>aren't separate, distinct phases of the process. I'm a tinkerer. I 
>continually reread my work in progress, pausing to substitute a 
>better word here, to expand a phrase to a paragraph there where it 
>strikes me that the meaning is unclear. And, as the story grows, 
>especially with a novel, it sometimes becomes necessary to go back 
>to add or alter allusions or whole scenes.
>
>With short stories, too, the manuscript is dynamic. I tighten here, 
>expand there, occasionally move or delete entire passages. But it's 
>not a matter of Draft 1, Draft 2, Draft 3. I don't work that way and 
>can't even fully understand the concept of working that way. But, as 
>I say, everybody's process is different. You have to find the 
>process that works for you. If producing distinct drafts and 
>revisions works for you, then by all means go for it!
>
>Like you, I learned to read print, before losing my sight. Like you, 
>too, I love Nineteenth Century literature, especially Dickens. 
>Wharton isn't one of my favorites, though. I prefer the Brontes. I 
>think, perhaps, you and I were taught writing in different ways, 
>from different aesthetic paradigms. It sounds like you're into 
>modernism, while I'm more old fashioned. One way isn't right and the 
>other wrong, they're just different.
>
>Chris, LOL That's short and to the point. Very good!
>
>Solidarity and Peace,
>
>Kerry
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