CarrollBlog 4.2
Part of a response to a writer who asked if the rewriting part always has to be so painful:
If you ask most writers, they'll tell you that the editing is the fun part - the creation is the drag. Once you've created it, then you should try and see the 'making it right' part as the gravy. Now you get to slow down, choose your language and punctuation carefully, and sharpen the picture you have taken. In other words, now you get to fool with it on Fotoshop. Think of it as writing a love letter. You throw words down as fast as you can in the beginning, but then you go over and over them once that's done, trying to hone it to just the right passionate stage. See editing as the glass half full and not half empty and it'll surprise you how pleasant it can be.
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"Memory is the way you make sense of love."
Sarah Polley
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"Man is God in ruins."
John Cassavetes