Anodyne
Saturday, April 24, 2004
 
Someone asks why previous entries keep changing.

I write quickly, but not very well. Anything worth keeping usually takes 10+ drafts to emerge. The right words are usually there from the start, but never next to one another. And web writing inspires a concision that other genres (like, oh, say, art criticism) don't neccessarily require. Everyone's familiar with the sinking sensation occasioned by reading previously published works whose flaws, now public, are all too glaringly obvious. Part of writing in public is the obligation not to be sloppy, to choke off glaring instances of overwriting and adverb abuse as soon as recognized, which in my case unfortunately means hours if not days later.
- posted by cjb @ 9:22 PM


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