Well said!
Wendy
Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier
StFX University
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From: CASLL/Inkshed [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Russ
Hunt
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:04 AM
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Subject: Re: future of Inkshed
One further thing from me, about "editing" . . .
> I'm intrigued that you felt the need to edit before sending.
I _always_ edit. I even edit pen-and-paper inksheds, on the
fly. I'm amazed that anybody can separate composing from editing
(I believe I edit as I speak, and I think in fact everybody
does: that that's what Jimmy Britton meant by "shaping at the
point of utterance"). I certainly always edit email as it gets
composed.
(An example: I just went back and added the first "that" to the
parenthetical remark, to make it clearer that I _think_ that's
what Britton said, and make it clear that what I'm saying may be
peculiar about me, and that maybe others think differently. I
don't know how to stop doing that.)
Somewhere at the heart of our different views of inkshedding, I
think, is a disparity of understanding about spontaneity and
authenticity: Peter Elbow thinks (I think) that if you could
just get rid of that internal censor, and let the discourse
flow, you'd find things you wouldn't find otherwise: hence,
freewriting . . . but when we started using inkshedding, we
wanted there to be "back pressure" on what was being written; we
thought that the expectation that the text needed to be clear to
others would help the writer to use text as a tool to think
with.
I also think that somewhere in here is a residual tendency to
think (tacitly) of editing as "fixing," as getting the surface
less embarrassing, rather than thinking of it as getting what
we're saying right.
-- Russ
St. Thomas University
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/
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