NaNoWriMo day ten
10 Nov 2009
For two days, I’ve written shit, in that I’ve barely written and most of what I wrote was shit, which is interesting only in that I have apparently begun to qualify the quality as well as measure the quantity of what I’m writing.
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the capt.
2009 Nov 11 1The opinion of Writerly Sorts on their own writing is, generally speaking, for shit. Unless, of course, they’re talking about the overuse of semi-colons, the word “like” and confusing there for their, or hear for here.
Laurustina
2009 Nov 11 2true – still, one hopes to know the subtle difference between blathering just to blather and getting caught up in a flow of blather that actually goes somewhere all on its own – the later being the hoped-for result of the former.
dan
2009 Nov 12 3though I don’t respond well to writing “challenges” I have been working on a short story for a few months. About half of my handwritten work has been transcribed to my computer. Half is in a notebook. Last tuesday I lost the notebook, which actually contained the story, ideas for dozens of other things I wanted to write, and notes on my boys’ traits and developments as they grow through wonderful phases of their young lives. I feel like choking on my own larynx.
Just had to vent. In my philosophy, writing is a good in and of itself, and qualitative assessments are secondary. It’s getting the words down that is the big key. But when those words go down and then go out and away and disappear… I just don’t know how I feel about that.
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