Because writing fiction encompasses so many things and can never be fully mastered, one tends to concentrate on a few things, get them good and then move on to others. The only problem is that without constant work and polishing sometimes what was once good becomes much less and needs to work.
It is as Twyla Tharp says a clock face of skills. And round and round we go.
So I am busy working away, polishing those things I once did well but no longer and remembering to add little touches. Previo...
Published on October 12, 2009 23:02