{"id":410,"date":"2013-08-11T17:33:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.wordpress.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-08-11T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:33:33","slug":"annie-dillard-on-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/annie-dillard-on-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Dillard on Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the blog Brain Pickings, especially when the subject is writing. Here is something interesting from today\u2019s edition &#8212; excerpts from the writer Annie Dillard (from Ms. Dillard\u2019s book\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">The Writing Life<\/span>)\u00a0on<\/p>\n<p>editing while you compose and<\/p>\n<p>editing after you compose.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0\u201cThe reason to perfect a piece of prose as it progresses \u2013 to secure each sentence before building on it \u2013 is that original writing fashions a form. It unrolls out into nothingness. It grows cell to cell, bole to bough to twig to leaf; any careful word may suggest a route, may begin a strand of metaphor or event out of which much, or all, will develop. Perfecting the work inch by inch, writing from the first word toward the last, displays the courage and fear this method induces.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>[\u2026]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The reason not to perfect a work as it progresses is that, concomitantly, original work fashions a form the true shape of which it discovers only as it proceeds, so the early strokes are useless, however fine their sheen. Only when a paragraph\u2019s role in the context of the whole work is clear can the envisioning writer direct its complexity of detail to strengthen the work\u2019s ends.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Read the entire entry <a title=\"Annie Dillard on Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/09\/annie-dillard-on-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the blog Brain Pickings, especially when the subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Annie Dillard on Editing - 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