Getting the right words right
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01/03/2012
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Oscar Wilde once complained that having spent an entire morning putting a comma into one of his poems, he spent the afternoon removing it. Peter Selgin calls this revisionitis: the inability of a writer to part with their work, the compulsion to go on fiddling and picking until there is nothing left to fret about. There can be real danger, Selgin warns, in fussing with things. The question then of how much to revise or how little to rewrite is one without certain answer and writers themselves hold differing views... |
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Queensland Writers Centre |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/70138/1/Getting_the_Words_Right.pdf Cantrell, Kate (2012) Getting the right words right. WQ. |
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Copyright 2012 Kate Cantrell |
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Creative Writing & Literary Studies; Creative Industries Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting) #190499 Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified #199999 Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified #editing #self-editing #writing process #reading #publishing |
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