Dave redid my book some.
I read it over and it showed me what was wrong with it.
Dave is not a professional writer.
Yet.
Dave’s mind moves very fast, which is the problem all of us face at first. He knows my ideas, so he put them together in rapid order. And that is the problem all of us with fast minds face when we have to write professionally. The ideas connect in our minds,and we expect the reader to keep up with them.
It reminds me of my conversations with William Pierce. We had had the same ideas and we were finally able to talk to somebody who was as smart as we were. To the people around us, who were no slouches either, our jumping from concept to concept was incomprehensible. It sounded, someone said, like a combination of telepathy and telegraphy.
But what I got from Dave’s rearrangement was that the ideas were coming in too fast and too thick.
So Dave’s work led to a steady rewrite.
My book so far was good and comprehensible as it was. But Dave showed me, by his mistakes, where I had gone wrong.
And he got back to me fast.
This process would have taken me WEEKS if not MONTHS before.
#1 by Kevin on 11/05/2006 - 7:04 pm
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I’m glad that Dave took the time and reviewed the manuscript. He has a greater command of the english language. I’m curious about the reordering that Dave did though.