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Do not think
that because you are unable to wring pearls of writing from your
keyboard the first time that you are any different than F.
Scott Fitzgerald. He revised his work 25 or 30 times. That is the
work of the pro. Any writer has to go back into his pages and
recreate and rewrite to get all the details and emotion into a
scene.
That does
not mean cutting until all you have left is a sentence with a noun
and a verb and maybe an adjective. You have to carve off the fat and
get to the meat of what you're trying to say quickly, although
sometimes the meat needs a little parsley. You must spark the
reader's imagination. That is not easily done because today's reader
is also a TV-watcher, which requires little imagination. You must
bend and flex Your reader's imagination because it is weak and
unresponsive.
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On Writing
Fashioning
a Scene
Conflict
The
Character's Mind
Self-Editing
Short Stories
Making
Waves |
Roger Paulding, author of The Pickled
Dog Caper, scheduled for a Fall 2005 release by Panther Creek Press |
