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An essay on writing by Raymond Carver [1] (as well as pretty much anything by Raymond Carver and authors he mentions in the essay :)). It's about good fiction w
by dnc 4y ago
An essay on writing by Raymond Carver [1] (as well as pretty much anything by Raymond Carver and authors he mentions in the essay :)). It's about good fiction writing, but, I think, good to keep in mind for writing in general.
[1] https://bryanafern.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/on-writing-raymond-carver.pdf https://bryanafern.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/on-writing-ra...
- notjulianjaynes 4y agoNo discussion of Carver is complete without mentioning his relationship with editor Gordon Lish. >Carver had been up all night reviewing Lish’s severe editorial cuts––two stories had been slashed by nearly seventy per cent, many by almost half; many descriptions and digressions were gone; endings had been truncated or rewritten––and he was unnerved to the point of desperation. https://web.archive.org/web/20220617140639/http://www.newyorker.com:80/magazine/2007/12/24/rough-crossings https://web.archive.org/web/20220617140639/http://www.newyor...