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Writing is revision. all prose responds to work.
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Writing Is Revision. All Prose Responds To

Tracy Kidder
Writing is revision. all prose responds to work.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. but it hasn't been in the same form. i used to write scripts for television. i wrote for my comedy act. then i wrote screenplays, and then i started writing new yorker essays, and then i started writing plays. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the new yorker essays, but they were comic. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. in my head, there was a link between everything. one thing led to another.
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Somewhere i put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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In general, i would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. in the old days, i read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. you can’t pick up a page. all the words slide off.
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