I need the initial blind emotionality to get started; but then I need something by steps more distant in order to revise.
But writing for me is a series of successive approximations. Getting things down is only step one; revising what's in front of my is more than half my process.
Which isn't to say I won't throw out large chunks if I need to--I've thrown out more than half a book at times. But that's more if the large scale issues are problematic.
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Date: 2004-07-11 09:47 pm (UTC)But writing for me is a series of successive approximations. Getting things down is only step one; revising what's in front of my is more than half my process.
Which isn't to say I won't throw out large chunks if I need to--I've thrown out more than half a book at times. But that's more if the large scale issues are problematic.
What works, works, and all that.