I was walking back to my suite at the flyers game. As I entered the suite, I found Don Murray, Marry Karr, and Anne Lammot sitting at the round bar table. What are you guys doing here Mary Karr response saying we are talking about the writing process, any questions you want to ask. I first asked Dong Murray “what is the is the purpose of rewriting a rough draft, he replied. “Rewriting is reconsideration of subject form and audience. It is researching researching re thinking redesign, rewriting and finally line by line editing.” I then turned my attention to Annie Lammot asking her” how do I deal with shitty rough drafts?” she said “what I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty rough draft is to quite the voices in my head. First there’s the vinegar lipped reader lady who says primally “that’s not interesting is it” And then there’s the excited German male who writes these Orwellian memos detailing your thought crime. And then there are your parents agonizing over your lack of loyalty and direction” My last question was to Marry Karr and my question to her was ‘How do you get yourself to write?” Marry said “In the begging when there are zero pages, you have to cheer yourself up into cranking stuff out, even if it later lands on the cutting room floor. Each page takes you somewhere you need to travel before you land in the next spot.” As Marry was finishing up her sentence the horn for the third period started. Thanks guys I have to go back to my game.
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