Thank you for this encouraging post! My takeaway, as a teacher focused more on the technical aspects of writing, is that they matter- but they are also just the beginning! I'm going to share this with my teachers!
I love reading your posts. This one particularly reached me. I have often wondered, knowing fully that I was not the most brilliant person in the room, who gives me the permission to write? The fact that I'm chock full of unique experiences is permission enough.
You do a great job of encouraging us to relax and be the writers we can be!
I love these examples of vivid writing. It’s interesting to note that the Floridian was able to describe what was every day to her in more surprising detail than the new to her snow. Perhaps that is part of writing what we know.
I appreciate this message. It is refreshing to be reminded that each of us has experiences that would be unexpected and original to others and that a key to communicating those experiences is in paying attention to the details. There seems to be a trend recently in writing where authors are more or less told what they can write about or what they should include in their writing, which I can’t help but to see as a restriction that leads to poor writing.
On a side note, when you mentioned that there is a graphic novel version of Watership Down that came out, I gasped. I need to listen to the episode with Joe Sutphin and to buy this book.
I was just listening to a "Believe to See" podcast episode where Matthew Clark explained what he has learned from the etymology of the word intelligence: inter + legere or "to read into" something. Matthew pointed out that intelligence is not something we have, rather, it is a posture we take.
Thank you for this encouraging post! My takeaway, as a teacher focused more on the technical aspects of writing, is that they matter- but they are also just the beginning! I'm going to share this with my teachers!
I love reading your posts. This one particularly reached me. I have often wondered, knowing fully that I was not the most brilliant person in the room, who gives me the permission to write? The fact that I'm chock full of unique experiences is permission enough.
You do a great job of encouraging us to relax and be the writers we can be!
I love these examples of vivid writing. It’s interesting to note that the Floridian was able to describe what was every day to her in more surprising detail than the new to her snow. Perhaps that is part of writing what we know.
I appreciate this message. It is refreshing to be reminded that each of us has experiences that would be unexpected and original to others and that a key to communicating those experiences is in paying attention to the details. There seems to be a trend recently in writing where authors are more or less told what they can write about or what they should include in their writing, which I can’t help but to see as a restriction that leads to poor writing.
On a side note, when you mentioned that there is a graphic novel version of Watership Down that came out, I gasped. I need to listen to the episode with Joe Sutphin and to buy this book.
I was just listening to a "Believe to See" podcast episode where Matthew Clark explained what he has learned from the etymology of the word intelligence: inter + legere or "to read into" something. Matthew pointed out that intelligence is not something we have, rather, it is a posture we take.
This is so encouraging.