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“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,”
“When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”
write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out.
The most important is that the writer’s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader’s.
Running a close second was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.
