{"id":1602,"date":"2015-11-29T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2015-11-29T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T15:07:19","slug":"mary-karr-on-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Mary Karr on revision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great book on writing and life.<\/p>\n

“In the long run, the revision process feels better when you approach it with curiosity.\u00a0 Every editorial mark can’t register as a “mistake” that threatens the spider ego.\u00a0 Remind yourself that revising proves your care for the reader and the nature of your ambition.\u00a0\u00a0 Writing, regardless of the end result — whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed — means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.\u00a0\u00a0 And you do that by fighting for elegance and beauty, redoing or cutting the flabby, disordered parts.”<\/p>\n

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Karr, Mary. The Art of Memoir<\/i>. (New York: Harper, 2015), 215.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Great book on writing and life. “In the long run, the revision process feels better when you approach it with curiosity.\u00a0 Every editorial mark can’t register as a “mistake” that threatens the spider ego.\u00a0 Remind yourself that revising proves your care for the reader and the nature of your ambition.\u00a0\u00a0 Writing, regardless of the end … Continue reading Mary Karr on revision<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-pQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}