How Do You Revise Writing In The Manner Of P.G?
Rewriting in the manner of P.G. Wodehouse can make writing action filled. P.G. Wodehouse wrote in the first half of the twentieth century and is famous for his comical character of Bertram–Bertie–Wooster and his straight man Jeeves. In Alexander Cockburn’s introduction to the 1976 Rivercity Press edition of P.G. Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters page ix, Mr. Cockburn gives an idea of P.G. Wodehouse’s revision process. Revising in this manner may make us all better writers. Print out a hard copy of your writing. If you write by hand, write on single pages not in a notebook. Make a place on your office wall to hang your writing. Lining the walls with cork, so you can pin up your writing is one option. Another is to hang clothes line along the walls, and hang your writing from the line with clothes pins. Hang your writing in order and in a line around your office walls. Read what you have hung. Identify slow moving or unclear sections by hanging these pages out of line from the rest.
