[Becoming a Writer] Writing Without Notes - Walter S. Campbell
There is a method of writing, which is found in all bestsellers and classics, and which must always be used, if the writer’s work is to have the spontaneity, the freshness, the fluid quality which goes with true originality. Technique is always needed, but the application of its rules should always be natural and immediate. Therefore, whatever you may write, always write the final draft without notes, without referring to your earlier versions.
The book or story which has been written from notes shows it: every reader can recognize the solid chunks of dullness copied from the notebook, the undigested gobs of fact that clog the narrative, the “seated mass of information," as Henry James called it. Of course, every writer has to use notes, has to write several versions of all, or of parts, of his work. But it is fatal to work out the final draft with those notes and those versions under one’s nose.
There is only one way to avoid dullness. That is to write without notes...
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