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It is finished
Well, not really. But the first draft is finished. There will be significant swapping of scenes, perhaps taken from a different Point Of View. There will be more description of the Storyworld and some minor characters will add a little depth to the whole thing. And then the micro-editing, changing words, getting rid of “had” [...]
“Art Hides Art”
This quote is again from Dwight Swain’s book, Techniques of the Selling Writer. It really made me think.
Swain talks about how a good artist makes it look easy. The effortless arabesque of the ballet dancer, the casual-seeming movements of a potter at the wheel, the smiling soprano who soars through the upper registers, [...]