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MAD’s Monday Muse: The Finish Line

by Mary Ann on October 12, 2009

So I’m working on this piece. And I can’t seem to stop tinkering with it, even though I think it’s pretty likely the tinkering isn’t improving anything. How do I know when to stop rewriting? [read on...]

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MAD’s Monday Muse: Two Hats

by Mary Ann on September 14, 2009

Besides being MAD about Words, I’m mad about the movies. I often take The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, by Michael Ondaatje down off my bookshelf and read it again to feed my two obsessions. Murch is an Academy Award winning film editor who worked on “The Godfather” and many other [...]

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MAD’s Monday Muse: Stamina

by Mary Ann on August 9, 2009

I can play with sentences for hours and hours.
“There’s no reason you should write any novel quickly. There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn’t [...]

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MAD’s Monday Muse: Shut Up & Write

by Mary Ann on July 13, 2009

We love to write. We want to write. We need to write. We long to write. And yet, we find all sorts of ways to avoid doing this thing we love, want, need, and long to do. One way we avoid writing is by gathering with other writers to do writer-like things.
And while it’s [...]

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