tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post3964058152734519383..comments2023-12-20T17:48:18.108-05:00Comments on To Delight and to Instruct: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a WorkshopHoracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-45643696725465428512006-11-29T00:23:00.000-05:002006-11-29T00:23:00.000-05:00I really _liked_ your stanza III. I'd probably lik...I really _liked_ your stanza III. I'd probably like your paper too. I just got a journal rejection, if that makes you feel better. Mine got shredded and I believed it _was_ my finest, most polished and edited work, not a draft. <br /><br />Just remember that Hemingway rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, what, 43 times? Keep going. Keep going.<br /><br />--- trystero49Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-67546354023296570512006-11-28T21:26:00.000-05:002006-11-28T21:26:00.000-05:00Hey, I love this post! Of course, it may be becaus...Hey, I love this post! Of course, it may be because I don't know the awesome Wallace Stevens original? (Being a historian, I can get away with being illiterate like that.) But I love this because it so so so sums up the way I feel WAY TOO OFTEN. <br /><br />Anyway, it will be a great paper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-33563323119356176962006-11-28T00:49:00.000-05:002006-11-28T00:49:00.000-05:00OK, so a few hours and a half a bottle of wine hav...OK, so a few hours and a half a bottle of wine have given me a bit of perspective, enough to know that this post is far far worse than the 8 pages I had workshopped today. But suffice to say, that was a rough experience. And I've had negative feedback before, but damn!<br /><br />So back to the drawing board tomorrow, and let the revisions begin.Horacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36486960.post-10433046165918032632006-11-27T21:51:00.000-05:002006-11-27T21:51:00.000-05:00It was NOT horrible!!!!
It was a DRAFT!!!!!
(I c...It was NOT horrible!!!!<br /><br />It was a DRAFT!!!!!<br /><br />(I could be mean right now and say the thing that my diss adviser said to me after my submission of my first chapter of my dissertation that lies dusty in a file folder somewhere, that some people "just need to write things out of their system. You are one of those people." But I won't. I only give the anecdote because I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. And what that experience taught me is never to be ashamed of any draft that I write. It's better to write something that you need to revise than to have written nothing at all. I really believe that.)<br /><br />Ok, that self-indulgent aside over, here's the thing. It's good that you have a life. It's good that you go to the gym and spend time with the kiddies and plan fabulous meals. You need that, and your work needs it. And at the end of the day, your revision is going to make the paper stellar. I promise.<br /><br />(But yes, you were right to apologize to Wallace Stevens. This is a sad, sad appropriation of his awesome poem :) )Dr. Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.com