{"id":41013,"date":"2023-05-01T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41013"},"modified":"2023-04-30T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T08:18:57","slug":"revision-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/05\/01\/revision-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Revision Ho!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So-o, on Thursday<\/a> I ‘fessed up to having typed “the end” on the “beginning-to-end” of the final The Wall Of Night<\/a> manuscript. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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I believe it’s the<\/em> most important milestone in getting a book into readers’ hands — but as indicated Thursday, now it’s ‘game on!’ for the next round, which is basically revise-revamp-repeat.*<\/p>\n

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This is probably my favourite part of the writing process. To quote Haruki Murakami — and by extension, Raymond Carver —\u00a0 (with approval):<\/p>\n

\u2018 \u201cI take time to rewrite … Rewriting is my favourite part of writing. The first time is a kind of torture, sometimes. Raymond Carver [whose work Murakami has translated into Japanese] said the same thing. I met him and I talked with him in 1983 or 84, and he said: \u2018The first draft is kind of torture, but when you rewrite it\u2019s getting better, so you are happy\u2026\u201d ‘<\/span>
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I also take heart from the fact that I don’t believe there is anything in the current w.i.p. that comes close to matching the confused jumble that was my first cut at\u00a0 ‘Part IV: The Bride of Blood in Daughter of Blood<\/a>.’ (<\/em>No, it definitely didn’t spring fully fledged onto the page!)<\/p>\n

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So here’s to Carver’s happiness and getting on with the revise-revamp-repeat (and finally complete!) “interfrastically” (to quote Winnie-the-Pooh.)<\/p>\n

~*~<\/p>\n

* Repeating the revising and revamping, that is \u2014 a part of which will be removing all\r\n but intended<\/em> repetition.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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