But the beautiful thing about revision is that after a couple of
months, the story starts getting tired of being so tightly
controlled. It wants to mean what it wants to mean, . . .
so you have a choice: cling to your original conception, . . .
or give the story some rope. . . .
~ Writer George Saunders
___________________________________Quoted from W. Brett Wiley's "A Conversation with George Saunders" in Image Journal, No. 88
George Saunders Website
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