Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
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“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision
is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it .
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d) all of the above.
The irrepressible inner narrator guesses that the wolf in sheep's clothing ate the silly canary and escaped the consequences by posing as merely another irresponsible, absent-minded kitty-cat.
Perhaps in order to save the world one must give oneself over to the shape-shifting whims of the immediate moment, and just do the best one can, as one can, to ameliorate the suffering wherever one finds it.
There is never far to look.
Once again, hail to Suzanne for heroic efforts in the deep darkness of the actual present universe in which Nobody Really Knows.
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