Fourth Wall

Saturday, November 18, 2006

I forgot how slow writing is.

I've already sent many of you this quote, but here's the advice my dear mother told her Creative Writing students:

"Even if you don't like what's coming out, start writing as if you were starting a brisk walk trying to get somewhere."

My father's advice was somewhat different.
"Lower your standards. You're a perfectionist, like I am."
"It's not my standards. I'm bored of it."
"Hm. Maybe you should go out for a drink."

I know I had something else to say here, butI forgot what it was.

2 Comments:

  • Yeah, both of these have definitely worked for me at one point or another. I use your mother's advice with my paper-writing all the time. Your father's advice is saved for the most prickly situations.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:10 PM  

  • I try to write until the Vapid Paralytic jumps on the keyboard. (Have you every tried to compose turgid prose with a cat sleeping across both your wrists?)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:55 AM  

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