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Jello
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2007 - 01:59am PT
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You crack me up, Werner.
Mo must go!
-JelloChuckle
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Tarbuster
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right here, right now
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This is turning out to be a great thread!
Good stuff here.
Before it's over, it will be like our own little writer's workshop, all at Jell-O's expense or defense or something.
Erudite-Jell-O wrote:
“Although I'm surprised at you literary sort who didn't immediately grasp the import of the title: CHAPTER 1!”
-Buddy, I think it's only fair to point out that once you get this thing published, the edit button will be gone,
ha ha ha.
MikeL wrote:
"The first draft of anything is sh*t."
(Hemingway)
Whoops, most of what I write goes out as a first draft, but I guess that's because I am mostly just a sh#t talker, so there you go.
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MikeL
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I've got tears on my eyes, Werner. (Stop it, please.) You are creative . . . a little looney sometimes . . . often insightful.
Jello, I hope you're going to keep us posted on your experience with this, and even show us more writing. I think many people would be interested in the story of your storywriting, especially since so many people seem to be budding writers and artists themselves. ST people love story and they are artistic.
If you continue on with this, I'd bet there'd be development of the protagonist (you). The natural conflict--where the creative artist runs head-on into the business world of publishing, or coming to grips with themselves in their stories (Capote, Bonfire of the Vanities, Adaptation, etc.)--should hold interest for anyone who wants to create and get published. From what I've seen and heard, it's akin to self-mutilation. Maybe Largo and others could comment.
Best.
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neebee
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calif/texas
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hey thre WBRAUN... say, in your "it all began"...you forgot to add:
one dark dreary night slightly illumined by candle light, as the winds fiercely blew through the open french doors that--if one would backtrack a few steps--led to the huge forum of their origin, where the stained glass window was broken in a showered array of pieces from the knarled tree that was felled to these formerly framed colors by the powerful storm (an unpredicted one, at that, and perhaps from far out at sea) and were even now reaching the candle's fast flickering feisty fist-hold for fluent flame, far-fetchingly fighting for firey shine ...
hmm... or perhaps that was to be, "it all began":
one bright sunny morning, mid the mulberry and morningglory-merth, managed most marvelously by many mighty multi-colored macaws as they maneuvered merrily through mangroves and mangos, about the mangy mundane mossy manor....
or was that:
one~~~ .......ooooooooooooops, my candle just blew out... man, oh, man... sure hope i dont slip on the mango mess in the morning...
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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The suggestion of reading lots of good fiction, and analyzing the cosntructions and stuff, is a good one!
....and also, be cautious of putting your work out prematurely. Remember - most of us here, including me, don't have the qualifications to truly critique the work. Even so - I think it's important to write, write, write! Allow your own voice to become stronger and more confident.
I have a friend who got a book published ("Philosophy Dog: The Art of Living with Man's Best Friend," Breon O'Farrell), and did an Artist's Way group with him during the time he was working on it.
Each and every single day, for more than a year, he sset aside time to write. When the first draft was complete....THEN the work began. hahaha. Oh, yeah.....
I also have had the fortune to make acquaintance with Julia Cameron(The Artist's Way, among other things). Gawd i HOPE that some day I get something far enough along to give her a call and ask for a favor!
By the way.....If you ARE feeling a little constipated, creatively, Jello or any others, the Artist's Way is a fun, powerful tool. I have done the thing 4 times, and once facilitated another group through a run on it. A Supertopo Artist's Way group would probably be MEGA-inspiring!!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 11, 2007 - 02:59am PT
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hey there jello... i have been trying to find some very well done info, for writing... seems i can not RE-find it on line, as i must not have kept the links... but i do have them on a file... text doc... but i can send the whole thing in an email, if you want it...
(it does not have to be an attachement, if you are worried about computer, etc)... if you want the info, just ask and i will email it... emails are listed if we click on names, right?.... so just post, as i will not impose an email, if you dont want the info...or perhaps are not ready for it yet...
i could post it all here, but it would be very long....
god bless... good luck and best for the writing...
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