[stylist] stylist Digest, Vol 81, Issue 19

[Donna Hill]

Hmmm, Jim, seems to me if you had 2 pair-a-dimes, you should be able to 
get 2 cups of coffee at 20 cents -- not that you would find such a cup 
easy to locate. You'd probably go broke on the public transportation 
getting to the shop.
Donna

Read Donna's articles on
Suite 101:
www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/donna_hill
Ezine Articles:
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=D._W._Hill
American Chronicle:
www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/3885

Connect with Donna on
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/dewhill
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/dwh99
FaceBook:
www.facebook.com/donna.w.hill.

Hear clips from "The Last Straw" at:
cdbaby.com/cd/donnahill
Apple I-Tunes
phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=259244374

Check out the "Sound in Sight" CD project
Donna is Head of Media Relations for the nonprofit
Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind:
www.padnfb.org


On 1/13/2011 1:49 AM, James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR wrote:
>
> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Writers Division web site:
>> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org 
>> <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/>
>>
>> stylist mailing list
>> stylist at nfbnet.org
>> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
>> stylist:
>> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/n6yr%40sunflower.com 
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Writers Division web site:
> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org 
> <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/>
>
> stylist mailing list
> stylist at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> stylist:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/penatwork%40epix.net 
>
>
>
>
>
> E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514)
> Database version: 6.16690
> http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/
>




E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514)
Database version: 6.16690
http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/