Comments on: working methods http://www.darcypattison.com/revision/working-methods/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: MGD http://www.darcypattison.com/revision/working-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-7385 MGD Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:59:13 +0000 http://www.darcypattison.com/?p=2424#comment-7385 Revisions are done in situ or not at all. Retyping is rewriting is why bother to write in the first place. You should trust your immediate instincts when words flow because they are the right words. Revisions are used to change your true voice to one acceptable by the outside world. Okay, so you want to be published and all that. Well, save your original draft. It will be valuable 100 years hence. Revisions are done in situ or not at all. Retyping is rewriting is why bother to write in the first place.

You should trust your immediate instincts when words flow because they are the right words. Revisions are used to change your true voice to one acceptable by the outside world.

Okay, so you want to be published and all that. Well, save your original draft. It will be valuable 100 years hence.

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