Reflections of a working writer and reader
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it. D.H. Lawrence, for instance, did seven or eight drafts of The Rainbow. The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better. Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
A new site, Wordsy, promises to fill the gap occasioned by Digg consistently refusing to have a section for the world of books. Once you’re registered (relatively painless procedure) you can vote for stories, comment, or even submit stories of your own.
(Edit – Wordsy has now been taken off-line)
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This is brilliant. Digg for the intelligentsia, um, the brainy ones, or what were we nominated as again?
In any case, it does look very pretty and it’s yet another source for some (perhaps) interesting ‘book news’.
And I could register as just ‘Nils’. When was the last time that happened?
jb says: Don’t get too excited, Nils; feels like it could go either way at the moment.
This sounds rather interesting but then on the other hand I have yet to hear about this. What was the out come of this process.