Soluciones creativas: Saber cuando y cómo acabar la historia/ Annie Proulx
“It is impossible to answer. You just know. I suppose it’s the thing Hemingway referred to as the built-in shit detector. I think one develops a built-in shit detector through wide reading of other people’s work. And if you can’t see the ghastly bits in your own writing you shouldn’t be a writer. […] I once heard Ha Jin say that it was not uncommon for him to do more than thirty drafts. I do not usually do so many. […] Even then, when the story is apparently finished I see changes that must be made. For example, I added the last sentence to “Brokeback Mountain” after I had sent the story to my agent and I was in a fever of anxiety until the fresh page reached her. With novels it’s a couple of drafts. Maybe four or five within certain sections, and certain paragraphs need reworking again and again and again to make things move in the right direction”.
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