Monday, July 30. 2007
Some Thoughts on Writing
Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry
No Trackbacks
Comments
Display comments as
(Linear | Threaded)
You burn the first free writing daily? woah. I have never done that. Interesting process overall.
Yep. Furthermore, I never look back at it - which is recommended for this process. Just get it out, let it go, open the pipe for something better. I will jot down anything worthwhile that comes up on a separate page (to-do items, inspired phrases - though that’s rare). My sister the psych. major has her own take on the benefits of this as well:
http://tinyurl.com/3ycudb
http://tinyurl.com/3ycudb
thanks for the link. It’s a subject another friend and I were just talking about. Might give it a shot.
Just finished doing some this morning. Helps me unload work stress as much as it helps prime the pump for creative endeavor. More and more, I realize my life and my expression are inextricably tied.
I’m always shocked to meet writers who aren’t well read. More so, I’m socked at the amount of writers who haven’t read some of the masterpieces of the language, or who read mostly drivel. It must affect their writing, on some level.
I put it down, in part, to first-world narcissism, which has misinterpreted the literary arts as necessarily individualistic - all about "mak[ing] it new" when, in fact, it is as much about appreciating and understanding all that is "old" as the only means to true originality. We enter the conversation crying old platitudes, rather than listen long enough to understand the threads of discourse and enter, in our own way, having earned the authority of our speech.
