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- From: lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Why Rewriting isn't bad
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.195040.15591@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:50:40 GMT
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- Somebody writes:
- >
- > I don't write poetry. If I did, though, I could imagine there being
- > times when I wanted to express a thought exactly as it had come to me,
- > in the hopes of simply mirroring the thought, and not relating it to
- > someone else.
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- FWIW, I rewrite my poetry a lot heavier than I do my fiction.
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- > In almost every other genre of writing, however, a general rule of thumb
- > for someone whose purpose is to -relate- the thought would be to
- > consider, above all, the audience. This is most effectively done after
- > the thought is written. Hence, the value of editing.
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- Bingo.
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- Larry "I never get it right the first time" Hammer
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