When writing allow yourself to be bad - the wrost writer you can be. lol (note to self)
I have to remind myself over and over to allow myself to writing badly. When I write first I have to get the thoughts out, or I never make it to the end. If I look back and try to fix my story - like editing sentences- I will go back and fix a scene when from whatever reason I can''t move forward a story and the night before God reviled what wrong, often a scene before need ajustments. but I can't go back and fix every sentences as I write. I mean I tried that on my first story - well second story- well third story-
yes as I write I remembering the few first storiesI wrote and then THE story I wrote- that I really spent years trying to write but never never got pass the 1st or 2nd chapter because I would go back and rewrite every pargraph and make it perfect- this destoryed the story in my head. DESTORYED IT! Now I just write try to get to the scene in my head and then move to the next scene in my head and so on and so on.
Yes, I have finished a 1st draft have I ever wrote a story I really like hmmm no not yet. I'm still learning
and here Maureen Johnson who I think said it best.
what writing advice have you learned over the years?
~Annie
2 comments:
Amen to that!! I love your blog!!
Thought you might be interested in mine. I have a collaborative blog - http://DysfunctionalBeginnings.com/. About growing up, beginnings in general, told in a variety of formats (literary, nonfiction, fiction, poetry, new media). Let me know what you think :)
Would love if you'd contribute! let me know..
it's true!! getting it out is terribly important. Style comes later. Revision is such a strange thing to me. I always like to preserve each draft. as if i'll lose something otherwise. right?
-jess
http://dysfunctionalbeginnings.com/
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