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Show Master Gives Writers Advice Worth Heeding Prof. Dallas Lore Sharpe, noted speaker and essayist, speaking in a series of lectures on "The Writer" at Boston university, stressed the value val-ue of time and work In the handling of a theme. "We all have something to say and an Itching to say It In our own particular par-ticular way," he said. "I won't call It Inspiration, I call It itch. It takes time for a theme to emerge. The thing you want to write about comes to you In Indefinite form. To get it into tangible form takes time and work." He deplored the absence of revision in the work of young writers. "The common sense Is tickled to death with revision as well as the publishers," he said. "You should revise your manuscript for variety of words, sentence sen-tence and structure. Real virUie lies as much in suggestion as concrete statement." |