If you’ve checked out my Books page, you know that I’m reading Philip Gourevitch’s We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. I’ve been reading this book since I bought it in hardcover when it first came out, in 1998. Back then my experiences in Rwanda were too fresh [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 3, 2009
Revision
I don’t mind revision. I really don’t. I like getting my hands into my sentences, paragraphs and chapters, playing around with the words and images, and making it all better.
Once the story is down on paper, revision turns it into a novel. But it’s hard to see into your own story sometimes. We’re too close [...]
