![]() ![]() ![]() It's a process more than a fixed position."Ĭonsider, by way of example, a most startling and revealing case in point. I have to keep trying to see if I can find that out. Maybe I revise because it gradually takes me into the heart of what the story is about. But I do know that revising the work once it's done is something that comes naturally to me and is something I take pleasure in doing. Maybe there's no connection except the one I'm making. I think by nature I'm more deliberate and careful than I am spontaneous, and maybe that explains something. Rewriting for me is not a chore-it's something I like to do. That initial writing just seems to me the hard place I have to get to in order to go on and have fun with the story. I'd rather tinker with a story after writing it, and then tinker some more, changing this, changing that, than have to write the story in the first place. RAYMOND CARVER, who has written with exceptional clarity about the various processes by which literature is created, has this to say in the "Afterword" to a collection of his work called Fires: "I like to mess around with my stories. ![]()
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