About revision, I find myself telling writers: Be neither the doting parent, who blindly adores every word; nor the critical parent, who destroys the joy and pleasure of the process through self battery.
Be that balanced parent who says: "Lovely. Bravo. Now practice it again until it's perfect."
I wish I had some witty response to this email but all I can say is: thank you Kelly...and I wish you had been my mother.
ReplyDeleteMan (to cab driver): How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
ReplyDeleteCab driver: Practice, practice, practice!
ditto molly.
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