I know, I know.
Revision and editing aren't quite the same thing, but close enough.
I thought I'd include a little something on it in this blog, anyway. Christopher Meeks, one of my fellow UCLA Writers’ Program instructors, wrote an article about a writer’s struggle with structure for Caroline Leavitt’s blog. She is another of our UCLA Writers’ Program instructors (often online!). Read Christopher's article at
http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2010/05/christopher-meeks-talks-about-writers.html.
Christopher Meeks is author of the novel The Brightest Moon of the Century and two collections of short fiction.
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1 comment:
Carolyn--
Thank you for bringing up my article on structure. We can spend the bulk of our time making our sentences shine, but, as you point out, editing and revising sentences is not the same as seeing your structure.
What's rarely taught, it seems to me, is how to see your structure after you've written a whole draft, especially if you're the type of writer who writes as the moment carries you. How do you know the events are in the best order?
In interviewing other authors and in writing the article, I came to some interesting answers.
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