#WritersCoffeeClub 16 SepWhat was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn?
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#WritersCoffeeClub 16 Sep
What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?The one I haven't learned (or unlearned) yet. Whatever it is. Maybe it's not even that hard, but nobody has pointed it out yet.
I will mention one I'm *resistant* to learning: that everything non-essential should be stripped out. It presumes I can know what's essential on behalf of all possible readers present and future. I can't know that, sorry,
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#WritersCoffeeClub 16 Sep
What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?The one I haven't learned (or unlearned) yet. Whatever it is. Maybe it's not even that hard, but nobody has pointed it out yet.
I will mention one I'm *resistant* to learning: that everything non-essential should be stripped out. It presumes I can know what's essential on behalf of all possible readers present and future. I can't know that, sorry,
@petealexharris Also, some of the "non-essential" parts is exactly what gives a story character and life.
Stripping out the non-essentials might possibly make sense for a purely factual work; but let's be honest, a math textbook wouldn't be very helpful if all it contained was formulas, theorems and lemmas. For *creative* writing, it would strip the work of most everything that would make a person *want* to read it; and similarly with non-written works.
