#Rechtsterrorismus: Urteil gegen Bundeswehroffizier Franco A. rechtskräftig

https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/bgh-weist-revision-zurueck-terror-urteil-gegen-bundeswehroffizier-franco-a-rechtskraeftig-v1,franco-a-urteil-rechtskraeftig-100.html

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Our Revision-Party release is almost ready!
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My revision class ended with the question: How do you know when a piece of writing is finished?

It's really hard! Of course sometimes, the answer is "It's due!" Other times "I'm sick of it!"

I have tricks like letting it rest, reader feedback.

But what I think about most is: "Does this do what I want it to do?" & "Am I proud of it?"

There's no answering "Is it good?" So not that one!

How do you know when a story is done?

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@BinGanzBrav Richtig so!

Besser spät als nie...

Würde mir wünschen dass #Reichelt solange dagegen #Revision einlegt bis er vorm #BVerfG oder gar #EGMR dafür aufs M0wl bekommt und #Misgendering wie #Deadnaming klar als schwere Straftaten [Schwere Beleidigung & Verleundung] bestätigt werden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzI3Kqr8dNI #demoscene #revision

Also--I teach them together because I like the relationship, not because I think they are the same thing or whatever.

Some good questions we talk about: Can you create a motif of the object that is also a metaphor? Can you create a metaphor out of an object that is also a motif? Or do you prefer motifs that are not metaphorical but just lovely? How can a motif build cohesion in your story apart from any meaning it takes on?

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My class has been working with metaphor & motifs this week.

My theory is that they can be grown organically out of stories, that mid-to-late revision is a GREAT time to be thinking seriously about them--that the objects/imagery already in your stories will make more natural feeling metaphors and motifs than something superficially added.

How/when/or-do-you-even think about metaphors? What about motifs?

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The angel sinned light.
First and prime spark,
scratch of flame
on the rough nothing
of god’s unspoken
word.

The invariant broken
the angel fell into existence
from chaos into order,
the weight of all matter
on its wings.

Each photon
an infinitesimal death-into-light,
an angel child
unfurling the universe
along the binding curve
of Lucifer’s wings.

(This is a #revision of an old #poem. I always sneered at old poets revising the #poetry of their youth, yet here I am, doing it.)

My 8 week revision class has started--ask me if I'm grateful for the incredible conversations I've had here about different writers' revision processes?

I am! Thanks for your wisdom, my people, and keep it coming!

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"Revision isn't only the act of composition. Revision is thinking applied to language, an opening and reopening of discovery, a search for the sentence that says the thing you had no idea you could say hidden inside the sentence you're making."

- Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing

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"A belief that the writer's real work is making newness out of nothing. As if creativity only takes place where the ink stops and the blank page begins, where the cursor sits blinking. As if newness couldn't originate between sentences or within a sentence. As if revision were essentially secondary and uncreative."

- Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing

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https://bit.ly/8Weeks8Drafts

I mean, It's fun to get ideas and encouragement on early drafts from other people, but I guess I'm nervous if I show a thing too early, someone else's ideas will take over my own. It's like I don't mind showing what is not yet good, but I don't show it if I don't know my own intentions yet.

And yet! It can even be a helpful thing to talk through intentions with other writers you trust, just as a tool to figure them out.

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At what point to do you show your work? For feedback, I mean.

I try to get it as far as I can on my own first, but I know others are looser about that. Or maybe _sometimes_ I let my external deadlines decide...

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A raíz de un pedido de #revisión que me llegó ayer, les recuerdo que no es una práctica ética aceptar encargos en variedades que no dominamos.

español de España ≠ español de LatAm

Seamos conscientes de nuestras limitaciones y dejemos lugar a otros colegas más idóneos.

#traducción #traduccion #translation #traductores #xl8

I want to be a human prompt bot. I want to hang out in writing hashtags and no matter what the good news or gripe or observation is, I want to shoot back a related writing prompt.

I'd also like to be paid for doing this so I could make a decent living and still have time to write my own stuff.

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No, you have files saved on your laptop called 'final draft', 'final final draft', 'definitely the final draft', 'absolutely the final draft, honest'!
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Some of what this incredible & wide-ranging discussion (of what counts a draft) has brought to light are the various ways writers approach revision. Some see it as a time to fix, correct, fill holes, etc. to realize an already clear vision. Others use revision as another discovery phase, making bold changes, experimenting & just _playing_ with their stories.

If you're up for it, I'd love to talk more about all of that.

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At https://youthvoices.live youth can power up their #Revision chops with the #OpenAI's #GPT-3 When users create a post or edit one they can open the AI Mojo plugin where they can use the AI models: solves questions about students needing accounts or being blocked by the district.

We're asking youth to revise by getting summaries for each paragraph. This follows a recently published article about a study bringing AI and the strategy of reverse outlining together. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.09323.pdf

I have long thought that a "draft" is just about the most useless unit of measurement of all time. I mean, I use the term quite frequently and I have a (vague!) sense of how I mean it. But some writers move a comma and call it a new draft, while others do a complete overhaul before they save as "draft2."

What constitutes a new draft for you? Maybe it doesn't matter as long as you keep moving forward, but I'm curious.

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