[stylist] stylist Digest, Vol 81, Issue 19

[Judith Bron]

Back in the seventies you were able to get a cup of coffee for twenty cents 
at Grants, a national five and dime chain.  That being said, even Grants 
couldn't survive with coffee at a dime.  Judith
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> 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
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> 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
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