In article <3581622a.8817...@news.snafu.de>,

"Most of what one is taught in college courses, I'm afraid, is how to edit
not how to write."

I see no recommendation *not* to edit once one has written something.  And
I daresay this woman's own books aren't published without having been
edited.  She seems to be saying, "write first" and implying one can
thereafter perfect the expression.

As a published writer, one might conclude she has used the approach with
success.  As I am sure other writers may very well do.

Tilman's "clam hunt" is so pathetic.  Not only does he single out people
for their religious belief -- an act so offensive as to be almost beyond
words -- but he then invents things to ridicule about them.

I've seen schoolyard bullies with better manners.

- Whippersnapper

"It's psychosomatic.  You need a lobotomy.  I'll get a saw."  -- Calvin