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may fight the parameters of the creative process set by Pulitzer Prize winnerRobert Olen Butler,author ofFrom Where You Dream: The Process
of Writing Fiction,but he does offer writers a way
to go from craft to art.Among
Butler's observations this is pivotal — missing from most manuscripts is the
sense of yearning. It may be more accurate to say that some form of desire,
unexpressed or ill-expressed, may exist in many manuscripts, but falls short of
art because it's depicted through the inartistic forms of abstraction,
analysis, generalization, interpretation and summary. |
