Creative Writing

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Preparing for Publication

Revising and Rewriting

As soon as you have written your creative piece, get ready for the process of revising. To begin with, consider revision as part of the creative design. Technology has facilitated revision in a significant way and writers, unlike many other creative artists are privileged in that they can revise their work so easily, and unlike architects or painters can rearrange and alter at will. The ease in revising in writing is due in some measure to the separation of the text from its physical form. Until recently a text had to be captured on paper to be stored, read and revised. The computer changed all that. By displaying text on a screen in patterns of light that can be manipulated by simple key presses, ...