How The Revised Edition Of Curse Of The Starving Class By Sam Shepard

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In Sam Shepard’s drama review, he expressed his aversion towards rewriting and that’s the first thing I remembered when I bought the revised edition of Curse of the Starving Class.
Also, in his drama review, he tried to explain his backward writing method. Still, I don’t understand how “ideas emerge from plays—not the other way around.” without initially writing the play with an idea (50). Of course, stories can change once the writing process begins—ideas spark as time goes on. He didn’t spend much time on explaining this because he doesn’t understand it as well. In addition, he finds careful planning “as painful as pissing nickels” while I can’t find myself creating a serious work without planning carefully (50). Despite our contrasting