Sarah: It’s very different in that I write, I generally in the past so far have written these stories, these modern fables very quickly, inspired by as we’ve already talked about a moment with someone I know, all the stories begin the same way, in the burst that comes in the writing is the same. So the story is usually written out whole. Then in my changing and revising more than anything else and sometimes only I try to eliminate.
I just
David knows I write it over and over then, not looking at the last version and I try to get it shorter and crisper and therefore larger, larger in its impact, so that as I’ve said a thousand times every word is a world and that rhythm, which is my voice, my particular rhythm comes forward. So for me more than anything else it’s a taking it down, as in haiku.
