[Hemingway] has no courage . . . He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary. -William Faulkner
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? -Ernest Hemingway
We've arrived at the part of the writing workshop where we talk about revising. For the next several chapters, I will assume that you already have a bad draft of whatever you are writing, and you are ready to revise it into a better draft. These chapters are about polishing up words, sentences and paragraphs.
