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In article <LIGHTNIN.92Oct1221546@pitt.WPI.EDU> lightnin@pitt.WPI.EDU (Paraaaaaaaaade of Shoooooooooes) writes:
>>>>>> On 1 Oct 92 20:07:25 GMT, sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) said:
>
>FW> Watch out for this word by word stuff.  Taken the wrong way it can
>FW> lead to galloping deconstructionism, which leads nowhere fast.
>FW> What you want to do, in my arrogant opinion, is to splat down what
>FW> you think you want to say on the page as close to all-at-once as
>FW> you can manage.  Then go back and read it carefully to see if
>FW> anything seems to contradict the sense of what you were trying to
>FW> say, or to lead off to undesireable tangents, and fix those things
>FW> by splatting down something on top of them and then repeating the
>FW> review process.
>
>I have to agree with this.  When I write a story, I try and get the whole
>thing down as quickly as possible, and as briefly as possible.  Usually it
>takes the format of Tim does this and this and this, while Lisa is doing this
>and this.  Then Tim and Lisa get together and do thus and such, and so on,
>end of story.  Then I revise the hell out of it.  I take individual scenes


Hmm.  Looks like I forgot to put a bit of an explanation behind the
word-by word.  This came from a writing course that I had to take
where I had a teacher who tore up everything I wrote.  The idea behind
going word for word is to sensitize the student to the words he
writes.  As Fred Welden observed, this can lead to deconstructionism,
which, as Allen Bloom said, is the final brainchild of philosophy in
an attempt to overthrow reason [Or something equally vitriolic].
Going word-for-word is far too slow to do for more than a couple
exercises or a small paper, and once you're sensitive anyways, you'd
do something closer to what Fred does.

This kind of exercise is more for the youngster or someone who hasn't
noticed the words he's using than for the writer who has some experience
and doesn't need these kinds of crutches.  Anyone with common sense
wouldn't bother doing this for very long as it's too time consuming, but
alas, common sense is none to common these days.  I'd better watch out.  :-)

DY :-)

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