tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406419060193144228.post561904857479846086..comments2022-02-09T03:06:58.862-08:00Comments on KL's Writing FAQ's: 2. Thurber’s MudKathryn (KL) Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801435890997786332noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406419060193144228.post-15120068494896416462012-08-29T12:58:24.427-07:002012-08-29T12:58:24.427-07:00That's a great point, Pat. I may elaborate on ...That's a great point, Pat. I may elaborate on it in a future post. Thanks.Kathryn (KL) Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01801435890997786332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406419060193144228.post-56238367841064305042012-08-29T12:53:33.060-07:002012-08-29T12:53:33.060-07:00I like this - eliminating the sentence you were tr...I like this - eliminating the sentence you were trying to save. I find I need to cut extraneous words - ruthlessly. But I needed to have them in there in the first place, to be cut later.Those excess words gave direction. Pat McKnightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406419060193144228.post-60363602107042070522012-05-14T16:21:35.353-07:002012-05-14T16:21:35.353-07:00Kate--I too like the editing/re-editing, re-re-re,...Kate--I too like the editing/re-editing, re-re-re, etc. I'm going to write later on about one very small scene in Pandora's Genes that required around fifteen revisions until I realized that the whole thing worked better if I just threw out the sentence I was trying to save. Heartless bitch indeed.Kathryn (KL) Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01801435890997786332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406419060193144228.post-53669878102294405972012-05-12T17:26:13.484-07:002012-05-12T17:26:13.484-07:00I hate the mud-making process. The fun part comes...I hate the mud-making process. The fun part comes later, the fine-tuning and editing and re-editing and re-re-editing, even though it requires me to be a heartless bitch and cut lovely phrases and sentences that I labored over. Nowadays I don't work too hard to make something fit; I just unleash my heartless bitch. I figure if it takes that much effort to squeeze it in, it doesn't belong anyway.katenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406419060193144228.post-18946355781264668762012-05-02T14:47:55.661-07:002012-05-02T14:47:55.661-07:00I guess you've been making mud pies all this t...I guess you've been making mud pies all this time. Who knew?Nanretiredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751965875965511300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406419060193144228.post-54519468607131444092012-05-02T07:11:22.726-07:002012-05-02T07:11:22.726-07:00Interesting. That's the first I've heard o...Interesting. That's the first I've heard of "mud" in writing, but it makes sense.ghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05488846601991811827noreply@blogger.com