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Date Posted: 17:04:00 03/03/06 Fri
Author: chico781
Subject: Re: Advice
In reply to: chico781 's message, "Advice" on 15:59:14 02/28/06 Tue

Thanks, Chrys. I really do enjoy writing and I wish I was better at it. It really does help to write these feelings down and I know that even though they're not good (technically speaking), all the stuff that I write is from the heart, which I think is more important than writing beautifully but with no heart at all. At least I am not afraid of writing. My ex writes some beautiful stuff but she has that fear of not creating something good so a lot of times she gets crippled and doesn't do anything artistically.

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[> Re: Advice -- chrys, 18:18:59 03/03/06 Fri [1]

your ex is like my writing coaching client. she thinks if she puts pen to paer, it has to come out "right" or sophisticated or academic or something like that, and so she doesn't write. and she has a great book inside her, and the way she describes things in speaking is like, wonderful. she has really colorful ways of getting her concepts across, great illustrative phrases, etc, but she somehow doesn't think they are officially good enough to put in a real book.

but if you enjoy it, keep doing it. that's the only way to get better anyway. there's this GREAT book by brenda ueland called "if you want to write..." and it's short and sweet, but one of the things she says is, if you want to know how to make a story (poem, essay, etc) better, write three more. then you can look back and see what was wrong w/the first.

also, i take these memoir writing classes at the local library, and i'm always surprised like, there are people who've never written, but my god, when they get deep into their own stuff, there is SO much there, and the writing almost alwys comes out good. when it doesn't is when it just scratches the suface. usually you can see picky things that would need to be changed, but it's all stuff that eediting can take care of. a lot of times if you're telling a story, writing it, and you are reliving it at the same time, i don't know it just comes out right. i think it's when people shy away from their deepest material that it comes out sounding dry and tedious. at that point it doesn't matter if you can describe a tear better than anyone else, if you don't feel that tear, does that make sense? i think its true in music too. it doesn't have to be verbatim, or literally true at all, but we sorta know what's authentic and what's artificial. and once you have the authentic, you can always fix it, edit the picky things.

now i'm inspired too, lol. i'm working on editing my first book, but i'm also getting the itch to write again. for awhile i was done, i had holed myself up for awhile to write, i wanted to live. now i've done some living and have things to write about, juice for the well, and i want to write again. but i'm also going to not confine my stuff to just one section, as i have been. i'm going to throw all the things into a hat and pick one out.

so keep on keeping on...the only way to get better is to keep doing it. think about it like practicing an instrument, which it sort of is.

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