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It's really fascinating to see the thought process unfold like this. I wonder how much variance there is between writers? No doubt everyone has slightly differe
by llambda 15y ago
It's really fascinating to see the thought process unfold like this. I wonder how much variance there is between writers? No doubt everyone has slightly different style and method, but this gives clear way to visualize it.
- brudgers 15y agoA relevant quote: Tellers of stories with ink on paper, not that they matter anymore, have been either swoopers or bashers. Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledly-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awkful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they're done they're done. I am a basher. Most men are bashers, and most women are swoopers.... Writers who are swoopers, it seems to me, find it wonderful that people are funny or tragic or whatever, worth reporting, without wondering why or how people are alive in the first place. Bashers, while ostensibly making sentence after sentence as efficient as possible, may actually be breaking down seeming doors and fences, cutting their ways through seeming barbed-wire entanglements, under fire and in an atmosphere of mustard gas, in search of answers to these eternal questions: "What in heck should we be doing? What in heck is really going on?" -- Kurt Vonnegut. Timequake p.137-138 (1997)
- mturmon 15y ago"awkful" -- nice.