{"id":59,"date":"2007-06-17T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/17\/paper-trail\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T03:52:06","slug":"paper-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/paper-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a hoarder by nature. Pre-Goddess<\/strong>, I shifted flat innumerable times and each shift entailed a re-evaluation of my hoarding criteria. With each shift I held on to less and less. But what I held on to mattered<\/em>. Or I couldn’t bring myself to part with. Either reason was good enough for me to schlep it around.<\/p>\n

Amongst the clutter that I dragged around were reams of ideas and notes and bits of stories. Each story had an audit trail of previous iterations. I drew comfort from the fact that if whatever change I’d made in version x.y+1<\/em> didn’t pan out, I could go back to v.x.y<\/em>, copy-and-paste what I needed, and continue with v.x.y+2<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I didn’t tell a soul about this. It smelt of eccentric writerly behaviour and I feared it might lead to some superstitious obsessive compulsive behaviour. And then DJ Ash<\/strong> gifted me a movie book, inside which was the following:<\/p>\n

I like to have all the actual physical pages that I have done in front of me: all the drafts, and all the revisions, and all the markings on them. It gives me a sense of security; ie., ‘look at all these drafts you have done, you must be a very responsible person – now all you have to do is use your good taste and refine these pages’. \u00a0<\/em>– <\/span>David Mamet<\/a>, <\/span>Some Freaks<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And all was well in the Land of D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a hoarder by nature. Pre-Goddess, I shifted flat innumerable times and each shift entailed a re-evaluation of my hoarding criteria. With each shift I held on to less and less. But what I held on to mattered. Or I couldn’t bring myself to part with. Either reason was good enough for me to schlep … <\/p>\n

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