Camille Paglia is widely read both for what she has to say and for the way she says it. Here she explains her how she arrives at saying it:
My system of composition has four parts. There’s a long period of very enjoyable rumination, where I assemble information and jot ideas and phrases at random on legal-size notepaper—pages upon pages. Then as the deadline approaches, I study my notes and bracket or underline principal themes in colored ink to map out a skeletal general outline. Third comes the dreaded moment of writing—which is total torture! It’s a terrible strain, and I’m literally tied up in knots of anxiety as I toil over it. Once a draft is blessedly complete, my fourth stage of reviewing and tweaking the text (which can go on for days, if there’s time) is pure, serene pleasure—there’s nothing I love more!
(Quoted from page A26 of the 4 December 2015 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Scholars Talk Writing: Camille Paglia," by Rachel Toor.)
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