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leon
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Posted: Sat May 3rd, 2008 05:52 am |
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anyone ever do this. i haven't but a friend of mine did.
he was a fairly good artist that was improving. so he took all his sketches and paintings and burned them. i asked him why, and he said, cause it forced him to work and create new works that were better than the previous ones.
anyone ever totally delete a work they didn't like or that wasn't working? i don't mean putting it in a drawer, but totally deleting it so that it could never be pulled back up? (not just a scene, but at least a one act?)
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lauragoodin
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Posted: Sun May 4th, 2008 01:31 am |
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Nope, not on purpose. EVERY piece of writing is a draft towards something better. If I keep that in mind, they're all precious semi-raw material, and it's a mistake to destroy them. Besides, if I need to destroy pieces ot force myself to write something better, maybe I need to look at that....
-- Laura
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muncy
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Posted: Sun May 4th, 2008 09:40 am |
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Well, Alan Ayckbourn has done his best to bury his early work stating that he was still developing as a playwright when he wrote them. As this was around fifty years ago I wonder if they also reflect attitudes of the time that would seem incorrect now.
I've never deleted anything of my own. The first play I completed is on Lulu for all to see even though everyone tells me, and I know myself, that it isn't very good.
Of course, the difference between painting and writing is that we can recycle. The worst thing I ever wrote was a full length that I absolutely hated. It was pompous, pretentious and downright boring. However, I've taken it and turned it into a ten minute short that I really like.
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