tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421491328136165917.post5194744964489748700..comments2023-05-29T13:18:44.298+01:00Comments on Litrefs Articles: RewritingTim Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421491328136165917.post-51886812113601399192015-11-01T13:18:08.985+00:002015-11-01T13:18:08.985+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Nickole Dinardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05435675622017105709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421491328136165917.post-59203070052705526642012-03-09T10:53:40.275+00:002012-03-09T10:53:40.275+00:00I think Anthony Burgess said he wrote a chapter, r...I think Anthony Burgess said he wrote a chapter, revised it, then wrote the next chapter, never looking back. <br /><br />I've recently found this, which surprised me "Munro often revises her stories between their original publication in a periodical and the republication in a collection. For example, she frequently writes a story from both the third-person and first-person point of view before deciding which to use in the final version"Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4421491328136165917.post-53225389098660085662012-03-09T10:42:09.632+00:002012-03-09T10:42:09.632+00:00I’ve never got the whole draft thing. I have never...I’ve never got the whole draft thing. I have never been able to write anything, not a short story or a poem, without editing as I go. The idea that underpins NaNoWriMo is lost on me. I just couldn’t do it. Novels always come the same way. I write a bit then I edit what I’ve written, then I write a bit more, go back to the start of the text, and read through/edit until I get to the end of what I’ve written, write a bit more, go back to the very start and go through the whole rereading/editing process. Okay once I get well into the book I might only go back a chapter or two but it’s very important to me that the text flows and the only way I can be sure to do that is the way I’ve described above; the very next sentence I write <i>has</i> to flow seamlessly from what has gone before. That said the text I’m working on just now—which I hesitate to call my sixth novel but that’s what I’m hoping—is being written like a diary and the important thing here is that is <i>doesn’t</i> flow too smoothly. Quite a challenge. But I’m still rereading the earlier entries and editing as I go.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com