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- Subject: Re: *** Why is rewriting bad ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.111903.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:19:03 GMT
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- In article <1jfvbpINNr83@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, stong@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Simon Tong) writes:
- > Robert Heinlein wrote an editorial listing the steps necessary to
- > succeed as a writer.
- >
- > 1) Write.
- > 2) Finish what you start.
- > 3) Put it in the mail to somebody likely to buy it.
- > 4) Never rewrite except to editorial request. NEVER.
- > 5) Keep sending the story out until you've run out of markets.
- > 6) Write something else.
- >
- > They all make pretty good sense to me, except number four.
- > I don't believe he's saying that one should always be satisfied
- > with one's first draft. What is it exactly that he advises against ?
- >
- > Anyone care to make a suggestion ?
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- I don't think that Heinlien was advising to only write one adraft;
- what I think he means in that once you have finished the piece
- of writing and YOU are happy with it (and let's face some writers
- need more rewrites than other :), then you shouldn't rewrite it
- unless it has been accepted, and the editor wants a few minor
- changes.
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- Comments anyone?
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- Morgana
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