Sherrila and I noticed a trend, about the time I was writing the 'Vegan Manifesto'. All my first drafts come out in a bracingly rude tone, which in subsequent edits and rewrites I have to scrub away.
So when I don't think a particular piece warrants a rewrite - the one above for example - the rude tone remains.
It's a problem I've grown increasingly unhappy with since I discovered it. I've tried to trace it down to some kind of subconscious origin, or at least a historical one. (Why and when did this pompous voice appear? Why is it the one I favor for first drafts?)
Would becoming a "sufferable prick" be a step in the right direction? Hee hee hee.
Honestly, I tend to think that the first edit is always sort of an ego kill. Sometimes I think it's a function of youth. We just want to show what we know _so_ damned badly.
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Date: 2004-07-10 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-10 10:11 pm (UTC);)
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Date: 2004-07-10 11:30 pm (UTC)Sherrila and I noticed a trend, about the time I was writing the 'Vegan Manifesto'.
All my first drafts come out in a bracingly rude tone, which in subsequent edits and rewrites I have to scrub away.
So when I don't think a particular piece warrants a rewrite - the one above for example - the rude tone remains.
It's a problem I've grown increasingly unhappy with since I discovered it. I've tried to trace it down to some kind of subconscious origin, or at least a historical one. (Why and when did this pompous voice appear? Why is it the one I favor for first drafts?)
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Date: 2004-07-10 10:17 pm (UTC)i don't get it.
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Date: 2004-07-10 10:43 pm (UTC);)
Damn, you put that other post behind a cut so I actually have to reply!! Okay, soon, soon...
**smiles**
Date: 2004-07-11 08:17 pm (UTC)Hee hee hee.
Honestly, I tend to think that the first edit is always sort of an ego kill. Sometimes I think it's a function of youth. We just want to show what we know _so_ damned badly.