At 09:41 PM 26/03/2007, you wrote:
>- I agree with you Jack. When I started writing dark
crime I used to
>really stress over
>planting symbols and the book/screenplay's deep,
heavier meaning.
>The result was flat
>and forced. Now I focus on character over everything
else. What's
>amazing to me is that by
>the fourth pass on a particular project, I start to
see all these
>symbols and connections
>which I then pump up. Where did they come from? Who
knows, but I'm
>always happy to
>see them.
I expect "good writing" and notions of the appreciation of
good writing are as diverse as other forms of human
behaviour, but I think what Hemingway meant here was that
good writers are well read or otherwise immersed in their
culture, to the extent that its symbols and structures become
inherent rather than studied.
Best, Kerry
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