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| | BJ Hoff's GRACE NOTES: Got Rhythm? |
 | | I especially get the part about "sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm." Included with characterization, plotting, description, and a firm command of grammar and usage is this equally significant, almost mystic element of rhythm. |
 | | But when it finally works--when you finally hear the rhythm as it's meant to be, as you could hear it in your head all along--then you realize that what you thought to be time wasted was actually time well-spent. |
 | | I know what she meant, too, BJ, but when I can't find the rhythm, I just let it all hang out and trust that I'll have a chance to fix it in the next pass. |
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