How William Faulkner Revised Novels
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
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I understand why you insist on the 10.000. I'm a musician and that load of practice is extremely common among my peers. I actually can't even imagine how much more than 10.000 hours I've spent practicing music.
Exactly. It goes for composition as well. If you wanna be even just decent, you need to study a lot of sheet music and do a lot of ear training - hours every day. Then you need to put out a boatload until you finally start liking your own stuff. It took forever to get to that point, and half of my issues were in my mentality and creative process alone.
Do you have any references regarding revision for a writer who favors an archeological approach to story?
By that I mean my first draft tends to be very focused on the throughline, the core of the story, from start to finish. I'll gloss over parts that don't call my attention immediately, my order of events tends to be ineffective, but by the end, every major structural point/pivotal scene is found. It tends to be very unconsciously written. In the second draft I find more thoughtful and clear plot events to latch the story onto, find the parts where an internal story logic manifests itself and draw clearer and stronger connections. (Then ofc I tackle every page multidimensionally day by day).
I resonated a lot with your video on Murakami's revision process, so I was looking for more if you had any ideas.
Thanks, great video as always.
Have you listened to "the art of darkness" podcast? they did a biography of McCarthy with Aaron Gwyn, they even mentioned and recommended your channel!
Always good stuff. Thanks for your time and energy. I guess I'll google booktalk?
Booktok. The books that blow up on book tiktok
Booktok*
It’s the side of tiktok for people interested in books. It has a reputation for pushing « industry plants » and poor prose, but it’s one of those things where people choose their own silos.
"the path of least revision"
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Regarding the idea of emphasizing the benefits of a book rather than what it is about, consider this:
Product Headline 1:
"My Workout Routine".
Product Headline 2 (same item):
"Get Jacked in 6 weeks without going to the gym every day".
Which sounds more intriguing?
Like, if my transformative book about dragon-slaying in the New York subway system helps the reader reach literary Nirvana without meditating every day, that's probably worth stating! A dragon in New York might cause intrigue. A clear description of desirable benefits certainly will.
And I guess one can always describe both the content and the benefits.
This has nothing to do with the video, but thanks for getting me into Cormac McCarthy.
I’m sure you get this question a lot, but what happened to your cat’s tail?