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best 3.99 + 3.99 ever spent

i got this book a few days ago

it’s basically writer advice organized into subheadings and sections.
its very good to read when you’re feeling down, from whatever it may be.

What I tend to do is not so much pick at a thing but sit down and rewrite it completely. both for A single Man and A Meeting by the River I wrote three entire drafts. after making notes on one draft I’d sit down and rewrite it again from the beginning. I’ve found that’s much better than patching and amputating things. One has to rethink the thing completely. They say D.H. Lawrence used to write second drafts and never look at the first

Christopher Isherwood

When you think that you’re being determined and trying…no you are not trying, you could always try harder. Or at least that’s what I try to tell myself.

This could be interpreted as hypocritical because i’m also crazy lazy. i’ve never tired that hard at anything yet. so i don’t know. hopefully this will mean something to me, sometime, eventually…

the book was used for 3.99 on amazon + 3.99 shipping. i don’t really buy from the used section but this book new is very hard to find and the edition has changed and i like this edition more, when i received the “almost new” condition was basically brand new, the pages have been barely flipped, GOOD FIND!

oh i should probably tell you the title of the book The Writer’s Chapbook edited by George Plimpton