On “Revision as Epistemology”
I have placed “Revision As Epistemology” in The Marshall Review, where it belongs as a short essay. But it also belongs near the beginning of this notebook because it names something central to the practice.
Revision of one's own writing is not simply correction after thought. It is one of the ways thought discovers what it is trying to say. That matters here.
This notebook is not a side-channel for leftovers, nor a blog in the usual sense. It is a place for method in motion: fragments, observations, trials, tensions, and small acts of recasting before they become something more settled.
If the finished essay gives the voice, the notebook gives some trace of the movement by which the voice finds its footing.