![]() I pointed out that professional writers rewrite their sentences over and over and then rewrite what they have rewritten. I then said that rewriting is the essence of writing. "Let it all hang out," he told us, and whatever form the sentences take will reflect the writer at his most natural. Brock was asked if it was important to rewrite. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed. I then said that writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. Coming home from an arduous day at the hospital, he would go straight to his yellow pad and write his tensions away. Brock was dressed in a bright red jacket, looking vaguely bohemian, as authors are supposed to look, and the first question went to him. That made us a panel, and we sat down to face a crowd of students and teachers and parents, all eager to learn the secrets of our glamorous work.ĭr. He was going to talk about writing as an avocation. ![]() ![]() Brock (as I'll call him), a surgeon who had recently begun to write and had sold some stories to magazines. When I arrived I found that a second speaker had been invited - Dr. ISBN: 0060891548 Chapter One The TransactionĪ school in Connecticut once held "a day devoted to the arts," and I was asked if I would come and talk about writing as a vocation. Copyright ©2006 William Zinsser All right reserved. ![]() On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction By William Zinsser HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ![]()
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