The Alchemy of the Rewrite
All writing is revision.
Verlyn Klinkenborg • Several Short Sentences About Writing
I would go so far as to suggest that you should always write your lead (redoing it and polishing it until you are satisfied that it will serve) before you go at the big pile of raw material and sort it into a structure. O.K.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
Try This: Right now, take an hour to comb through your writing and start making your own thought chunk documents around the themes you most commonly write about.
Mark Levy • Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
To reinvent: No matter in what order the novel’s events were told, reorder them in time from first to last, as if they were biographies.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Under each talking point in an outline, I start by writing partially-formed thoughts.
It’s more efficient to speedrun through a bad first draft and improve it later than to try starting from completion.
It’s normal if few ideas come to mind immediately. You’ll discover that the majority of your ideas arrive while writing—not before. You write in or... See more
It’s more efficient to speedrun through a bad first draft and improve it later than to try starting from completion.
It’s normal if few ideas come to mind immediately. You’ll discover that the majority of your ideas arrive while writing—not before. You write in or... See more
