ENGL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elmore Leonard, Puffy Amiyumi
18 Apr 2017
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Writing is revising the writing happens when you"re revising, they aren"t separate things. Closed-door draft = the all-story draft: take a break, read it as a hard copy, make yourself an alien to it to see it with new eyes. Ideal reader": the person you"re writing for basically. Points to watch out for: pace - timing. Elmore leonard: i just leave the boring parts out. To shrink a puffy manuscript: 2nd draft = 1st draft - 10% Key to any community: being around people who are interested in what you"re interested: that"s what writers festivals do. Festival = go to a talk and that"s when u decide whether or not you want to invest time into reading their book also learn about how writers do what they do so well. Break the barrier between author and audience aims to create conversation.
