Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Four Young Editors
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Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Four Young Editors
the primary concern of the writer should revolve around the aesthetic elements of the work which are ultimately a way of containing / directing what emerges from the darkness of the writers interior.
lately I’ve been thinking of great writing as work that emerges from a very distinctive, very deep subjectivity; and “craft” is about finding the ideal... See more
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You’ve intuited your way through a plot. You know there are problems behind you that need fixing. You are not wild about the idea of having to go back and fix things. Some may actually loathe the idea of going back and editing.
Becca Syme • Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?
They wanted to learn and get better, and they were on the whole open to his insights and suggestions, so when he told them he couldn’t tell from their actual words on the page what a character looked like or what they cared about, or that he didn’t feel compelled to go along with them on their personal journeys because he hadn’t been sufficiently e
... See moreJean Hanff Korelitz • The Plot
The other 5/8 of writers bounce back and forth between needing to know something and needing to know nothing.