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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A parochial school education prepared me for understanding this.
Though the nuns never thought to work in the detail that St. Joseph stayed so... cool? is that the word?...because he came from the Antarctic.
(Well, it was still cool there THEN, anyway.)
And speaking of virginal... there's now a mint-condition Mustang awaiting you at the South Pole here.
Yes, Iove that Mustang. Mustang Sally.
And I didn't realize until recently that people took the virgin birth story literally. I am having some trouble with this idea. I suppose I am losing faith in my fellow Americans . . .
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