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Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It’s a chance not just to clean up and edit, but to open up and discover. The energetic prose comes about from all the energy that went into crafting it, I suppose.
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I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.
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I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.
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Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.
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The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It’s not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I’ve had.
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With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
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The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
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The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don’t think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.
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Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.
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