Re: an Easter egg
Steve Gallagher (sgallagher@lasersedge.net)
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 11:14:16 -0700
Scottie,
Is there not a time to write and a time to rewrite? At least in my experience,
if the critical eye is not put to bed and the creative flow let loose, I get
nowhere. Of course, I must return to cut and shape and insert and cut again
but, initially, it must find its way to page.
Take of your critical hat once and a while. You may enjoy the show.
Steven Gallagher
Scottie Bowman wrote:
> When a writer has
> a technique that I wish to emulate or steal from - like old man Hem,
> or Graham Greene, for example - I can't stop myself getting out
> the microscope. But immediately, something is lost forever.
> The willing suspension of disbelief is no longer possible. Just as
> too many films about the life & machinery backstage have destroyed
> any enjoyment I might have had in the `living theatre', so I can't
> really ever again get that tingle up my spine when I read about
> Pilar's young days in Valencia, or Jake Barnes walk down a street
> in Paris on a spring morning - because I now understand rather
> too well how it's done.
>
> Scottie B.