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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There's always aspiring to the absolutist's higher ground. Put it about that your aversion is democratic and may be unselectively applied to or by anyone who enquires.
In this respect Juanita and Juan become Everypoet, as in Bunyan. Their poor sheepish cowering little poemlets, herding together, baa-ing and moo-ing, waiting to be dismissed and/or ignored.
All-Purpose Courtesy Response Notice follows.
Occasions Upon Which the Poems of Juanita and/or Juan Ramon Shall Be Read By Me
I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with a goat.
I will not read them in the rain.
I will not read them on a train.
Not in the dark! Not in a tree!
Not in a car! You let me be!
I will not read them in a box.
I will not read them with a fox.
I will not read them in a house.
I will not read them with a mouse.
I will not read here or there.
I will not read them ANYWHERE!
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