I have been thinking about aboutness because a lot of you wrote to me with thoughts on it after my Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts post.
I love this idea of aboutness. In poetry keeping strictly to the aboutness is critical. I am definitely going to employ your formula as an assessment tool for each essay and poem I edit/work on moving forward. I also like to have friends read over my work to further assess for the 'keeping to the aboutness'. It's also helpful for making sure I haven't strayed from the world of the poem/essay. LOVE THIS TOOL!
I love this idea of aboutness. In poetry keeping strictly to the aboutness is critical. I am definitely going to employ your formula as an assessment tool for each essay and poem I edit/work on moving forward. I also like to have friends read over my work to further assess for the 'keeping to the aboutness'. It's also helpful for making sure I haven't strayed from the world of the poem/essay. LOVE THIS TOOL!