From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies
Something unresolved that readers anticipate might play out in the narrative to come.
From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies This is part of the thrill of a first draft, the excitement...and the anxiety, because at the outset of this glimpsed, intuited, but in crucial ways unknown story we're nonetheless obliged to make certain decisions – structure, voice, style, tense, point of view, and so on – about how best to tell it, essentially.
From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies If you've ever thought to yourself, despairingly, I could go on revising this forever, you've just taken a look down that ever-receding, infinitely regressing hall of mirrors that is perfection.
From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies Our manuscripts essentially look publishable long before they are.
From The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies So what does it mean when a writer who has mastered all the technical skills still needs to revise? What's that final irreducible core of revision? What's left to change?
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