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Post by Stacy on Oct 25, 2009 20:39:32 GMT -5
I don't know. I've been meaning to start a thread here for days and I open the window and nothing shows up. So I'm just going to freewrite here and see what comes out. Hah, I've got writer's block! I know I wanted to write something about "rhythm and rhyme and harmony" and finding the words that sound right together and that are the appropriate length and comparing and contrasting syllables and sounds. I wanted to write about words as notes and sentences as bars and stories as songs and novels as symphonies. I wanted to write about brushstrokes and colors and canvas and using a keyboard for a brush. I wanted to write about writing. Maybe I am blocked because I've really already written out my personal experience of it lately, in this LJ entry. But I wanted to write something more...universal here. I do have an article to link that might be good for discussion. I'll do that in another thread. What's your experience of writing? How do you decide what words to put where? How long does it take you to find the right word? Do you think about sound and rhythm?
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Post by girlyesterday on Oct 25, 2009 21:11:14 GMT -5
I will reference the quote by Stephen King in my signature. It's something I live by.
To be prefectly honest, I don't think of sound and rhythm. I simply write. My experience has always been that when I am inspired, I write my best work but if I were to wait until I was inspired to write something, I would never write anything.
I set myself deadlines so that I learn to meet them, learn to work within a timeframe and learn to write without inspiration. Sometimes, what I write is bad, the sort of bad you toss in the waste basket but sometimes, it's not great but it's not horrible either; most times, it's just a matter of methodical editing. Being ruthless when one approaches their work by cutting out the fat and keeping the words that count.
I rarely procrastinate over what word to put where or how a sentence should be structured. I find that sort of thing kills the creative spark before it gets a chance to spread its wings. In the editing process, I might decide to swap a word out for another one that's more appropriate but the initial writing, while not polished, is truer than what appears after editing.
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