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Tess Gallagher
From an interview in Rattle (winter 2007):
…you really have to stay in the chair a long time to get stories. Ray[mond Carver] taught me not to begin to correct or second guess things when writing prose, just keep your pen on the page and don’t lift it until you get the whole draft, even if that draft is awkward. You can interrupt yourself, and it’s very productive to interrupt yourself, when writing poetry, but to get a story you really have to just stay with it, bulldog it right down and get that ending to just come right in that session. …Because it’s going to be read in one sitting. …And that flow is very important, and his feeling was that when you came to the end of that story, there should be some kind of hum, some kind of luminous hum that the story leaves with the reader. And I think you can feel that in his stories, and in many good stories, that’s a part of it.
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