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Hi, all. I'm new here. I'm a solid 5. My M-B profile has gone back and forth b/w INTP and INTJ.
Looking forward to meeting some thoughtful people here.
Looking forward to meeting some thoughtful people here.
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Re: Any 5 writers/poets?
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 11:33 AMRight there with ya, Mark, except I'm a four. Everything else the same. -
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Re: Any 5 writers/poets?
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 11:40 AMHi, Darla, is there hope? I don't mind doing the work and wrestling my share of demons, but I can follow months of good work with days wherein I'm convinced "this is all terrible; who am I kidding?" Sometimes I wonder what it is that makes writing so important to me. There's a connection with my identity that I don't have elsewhere. I think "I AM" a writer. More than any other single thing. Blah, blah, blah, listen at me go on.
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Re: Any 5 writers/poets?
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 11:54 AMHey - take it easy on yourself. Of COURSE there's hope! You write because you don't have a choice. It's something that erupts out of you - sometimes forcefully, sometimes gently. Publication does not make a writer. I suspect some of the best stuff ever written has never seen publication. Being able to write is a huge gift that those of us who have it often take for granted. And, of course, we are always our own worst critics.
Can you find a writing circle where you are? Would you be comfortable with that? There is much good stuff happening out in the creative community - sink your teeth in! -
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Re: Any 5 writers/poets?
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 12:18 PMYou're quite the consoler, aren't you? Thanks.
I've been published many times. It's something about The Novel, though--I think deep down part of me fears getting it done and then reality being what it was the day before and me thinking, "Well, hell, NOW what?" In a sense, it's like the one thing out there left. (Not that I've got the world on a string otherwise--anything but--but that doesn't bother me like this does. I think part of me wants it to forever elude me.
Jeez, this has turned into a mope-fest. Sorry about that.
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Re: Any 5 writers/poets?
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 1:11 PMHoly crap. I don't think of myself as a "consoler" but if it helped, I am glad.
I, too, am working on something that I start, put down, do more research, think of another approach, wash, rinse, repeat.
How do you write? Do you wait for the inspiration to hit or do you just sit down and crank it out? My problem is that I want it to flow out of me - yeah, what bullshit. I need to take it by the horns and just do it. I think I will give myself a goal to be finished by my 50th birthday, which would be cool, since I'm 16 (not really, I'm 46).
Is it a block? Don't know where it's going? Don't know how to get there? For me, details are the hardest. I have the big stuff down pat, but the smell, texture and look of the place is hard for me to describe. Arg.
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Re: Any 5 writers/poets?
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 1:31 PMSounds familiar.
It took awhile, but I developed the discipline of being able to write daily. My rough draft for this novel was 75,000 words. I aimed for 2000 a day--a realistic goal--and made it most days. I can get into a groove like that for a month or so, but then I'll need time away from it.
I seem to endlessly noodle with the result and add little inspirations, gradually losing the main thread.
I think the problem is less with the writing than with myself---I don't seem to want to tell the same story two days in a row. I want to keep changing it. This time I'm giving myself the latitude to change it a lot from one draft through the next. We'll see if that works out any better.
Sometimes I think (-sometimes I REALIZE) that I can be more interested in a great IDEA for a book than with actually writing the book. Part of me resists letting a story settle down.
16 going on 46, eh? I'll bet you're fun!
Mark
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