[stylist] How to find your story - RE: question about astoryIwrote

[Lynda Lambert]

Something like this happened to Norman Vincent Peale - I believe his wife 
accidently had it taken out with the trash. It was not recovered. He had to 
begin again. I think many authors have experiences like this. Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Kuell" <ckuell at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] How to find your story - RE: question about 
astoryIwrote


> Around 1923 or 1924, Ernest Hemingway was in Spain. His wife was coming to 
> see him from Paris by train with their son. He asked her to bring the 
> short story he was working on so he could finish it. For some unknown 
> reason, Hadley, his wife, packed all of his writings into a valise and 
> brought it with her. As you can probably guess, with a baby and luggage 
> and train transfers to deal with, Hadley left the valise on the train and 
> all of Hemingway's work was lost. At first, as you might imagine, old 
> Ernie was bullshit. But later he said it was probably the best thing for 
> him, because in recreating his work, it was much tighter and better.
>
> My advice--rewrite your story.
>
> chris
>
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