Inside the Rabbit Hole: Three June 26, 2016
Posted by Isobel Freer in Writing.Tags: Doubt, Editing
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The other thing with creative arts is the doubt that both feeds and depletes (and often completely sabotages) the work.
How does critical analysis of an artist’s work play in?
You hear the “no” that is so necessary in editing but even so, begin to wrestle a point of paralysis—two voices clamouring—one, “leave it in” and the other,”get rid of it,” and that against knowing that what you write is not what others are writing (or publishing), and in the long run that is likely good, but in the other…
How do you know that you are achieving what you demand of yourself…
How do you know that your work is critically viable???
©2005 Valerie Isobel Freer. Adapted from unpublished papers; email to private correspondent. Images ©2008 Isobel Freer.