Dec 29
Annals of Revision IV
Posted: under Craft, Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: craft of writing, revision, the writing life December 29th, 2010
Just when you think it’s going smoothly and all will sail happily along a flowing tide into the sunset (can you tell it’s late and I’m punchy? I thought so) ….you find the Scylla and Charybdis of revision in your path.
These problems take various forms, but always present as the writer’s need to show something from various angles/viewpoints/political or social stances…and the reader’s strong desire not to be caught in a whirlpool where the same situation is recounted over and over and over.