Forum / On Rewriting:

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    Ramon Collins
    Jul 14, 12:22am

    "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." -- Oscar Wilde

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    Joani Reese
    Jul 14, 01:00am

    Love this. For me, writing IS rewriting.

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    Linda Simoni-Wastila
    Jul 14, 01:05am

    Yep!

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Jul 14, 01:27am

    Yes, but whenever I edit my novel, I wind up with so many spare parts! Seems a pity they should go to waste.

    Garage sale?

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    Joani Reese
    Jul 14, 01:59am

    I have a folder entitled "Snippets." Sometimes I even find phrases, lines, and whole paragraphs I can plug in elsewhere. Never throw anything away!

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    Linda Simoni-Wastila
    Jul 14, 02:10am

    I have a folder called Murdered Lovelies. It has a higher word count than my first novel ;^)

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    Gill Hoffs
    Jul 14, 07:33am

    'Murdered Lovelies'- perfect title for a story. A grim one.

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    Ramon Collins
    Jul 14, 07:16pm

    I never thought about saving Snippets and Lovelies. Perhaps it's a folder idea. Long ago, when I was a young man, a prominent painter told me, "The creative act is the pursuit of the happy accident."

    New folder title: Lovely Snippets of Happy Accidents.

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