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jewunit
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Writing
#7921524 - 01/23/08 08:08 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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I'm writing shit, for the first time ever in my life. It's pretty odd, and I'm sure rather terrible, but it's serving it's purpose. Slightly therapeutic, at least temporarily.
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Re: Writing [Re: jewunit]
#7921541 - 01/23/08 08:11 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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You let all that shit bounce around in your head long enough, it just picks up speed, like molecules getting hotter. Enough to drive a man mad. Even if you feel like you're not writing to be a writer...I think writing is something that can help anyone, make anyone feel good. Something about watching your thoughts organize on the page...it's a bit empowering. I could go on and on about this.
Yesterday was my first day not writing after 2+ weeks of consistency. Now I'm back in the saddle today and it's all utter shit.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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jewunit
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You let all that shit bounce around in your head long enough, it just picks up speed, like molecules getting hotter. Enough to drive a man mad.
 Precisely why I started doing it.
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jewunit
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Re: Writing [Re: jewunit]
#7921618 - 01/23/08 08:23 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Too bad I'm not any fucking good at this, it would make it far more enjoyable.
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Re: Writing [Re: jewunit]
#7921632 - 01/23/08 08:26 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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As someone who wants to write as his profession in life, let me tell you something: even when it's shitty, don't berate yourself. Just get past that, and keep on going. Even if you think you're no good at first, you'll never, ever, shit gold on command.
98 percent of what most people write is crap. That's the great writers in history too. It's like panning for gold. You gonna sift out one bucket full of dirt, not find gold, and turn around and go home?
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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jewunit
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Me? I would sift one bucket. I didn't expect to be good, so it really isn't a let down. Not like I was all "Shit man, Ima write me a novel on a Bukowski level" or anything.
Most of it has been letters to friends that I may or may not send, so I guess I wasn't really going for literary gold anyway.
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Re: Writing [Re: jewunit]
#7921700 - 01/23/08 08:35 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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All my best writing comes out in letters...which has me trying out a novella in epistolary format.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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skydog
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Re: Writing [Re: jewunit]
#7921935 - 01/23/08 09:16 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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What a coincidence. I'm at this very moment on a Jack Kerouac kick, and for everything I see, be it nature, pretty girls, or even a fucking math problem, I can't stop myself from forming some kind of crooked lines of poetry.
Now, I've never written anything before in my life, save the required English 101 papers, but I've been considering making the most of these new thoughts and writing them down.
I'd like to get one of these little notebooks so as to have a means of capturing these ideas that seem to be sneaking into my head or, hell, to just sketch out whatever catches my eye.
If nothing else, it would be interesting to write something new each day, and then look back after a year at 365 different pieces.
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Re: Writing [Re: skydog]
#7921977 - 01/23/08 09:26 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Just go to the bookstore or stationary store, grab yourself a trusted Moleskine brand journal, run your fingers over its smooth black binding, and you'll fall in love with it as your thought repository. I guarantee you.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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skydog
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Yes! I went to the bookstore to pick up the last of my textbooks a day or two ago and saw the Moleskine display there and was debating whether or not to get one. The pocket sketch book looks to be key
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: Writing [Re: skydog]
#7922054 - 01/23/08 09:45 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Personally I'm a fan of the larger one, without lines. My handwriting is unwieldy and barely legible to those people who are not me, myself and I. That being said, I appreciate a challenge, and therefore having finished up one journal the other day, I bought the lined version of the same larger Moleskine and I'm already cracking up at the need to squish my squiggly letters into tighter spaces. It's good for me though. I could use a little discipline.
Also for anyone who has a mac, likes to write, and finds Microsoft Word anything but inspiring...get a little Doogie Howser in ya:
http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: Writing [Re: jewunit] 1
#7929503 - 01/25/08 12:18 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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The trick to writing well, is to never write for anybody other than yourself.
I think it was Bukowski who said, that the moment you begin writing for someone else's expectations, you're done for.
Olaf is right.
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