“For 'So Cold the River, ' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter, ' and who also wrote '8 Mile, ' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.”
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I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.
