tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961445666519156260.post4699925942516743946..comments2024-03-29T02:19:42.154-05:00Comments on Operation Awesome: Flawless Writing?Dena Pawlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14444683810125395220noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961445666519156260.post-75107462072563040522010-12-22T15:03:30.750-06:002010-12-22T15:03:30.750-06:00Oh, it's such a delicate balancing act! On the...Oh, it's such a delicate balancing act! On the one hand, it's important to get words out to keep up the momentum, on the other, the words have to matter and they have to be powerful. Good thing revisions are allowed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961445666519156260.post-46344612380985166982010-12-21T11:50:23.648-06:002010-12-21T11:50:23.648-06:00Ooh, good idea, Michelle. This is an interesting d...Ooh, good idea, Michelle. This is an interesting discussion. I like the idea of perfect practice, but since writing is so subjective, too, it's not something that can be perfect, like a circle or a square. <br /><br />Thanks, Kristal, for the reminder to be mindful while I write. I do think mindfully writing something bad can be good, too. For instance, when I have writer's block, one of my favorite ways to break out is to write something purposefully bad. It makes me smile and frees up that perfection center that won't let me write.<br /><br />But yeah, at a certain point, too much garbage can't be edited into gold.Katrina L. Lantzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871272394922775923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961445666519156260.post-63237124664519669602010-12-21T11:42:11.842-06:002010-12-21T11:42:11.842-06:00Hmmm...good point. For me, it helps to have someth...Hmmm...good point. For me, it helps to have something on the page because I tend to edit better than I write...I do better with something to work with :D However, I also tend to just leave myself notes in brackets rather than put in something I know I'll just edit out later.<br /><br />For instance, I might have something that says "Min ran down the hallway, muttering [find a Victorian curse word] while she [give her something important to do].<br /><br />That way, I can still move ahead with the scene instead of sitting there staring at the page for an hour, but I'm not just spewing garbage either.Michelle McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08730366330276974943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961445666519156260.post-55252746977011469952010-12-21T09:42:01.415-06:002010-12-21T09:42:01.415-06:00I tend to mull over things a long time before I pu...I tend to mull over things a long time before I put pen to paper (or words to screen) and I think that helps those first drafts. Not that I never have occasion to do trimming in rewrites (ha!), but that it does give me time to weed out the sillier subplots or characters that occur to me.Angelica R. Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09448717076699744259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6961445666519156260.post-80644092166226018502010-12-21T08:53:20.517-06:002010-12-21T08:53:20.517-06:00What a great one-two with Amparo's post yester...What a great one-two with Amparo's post yesterday. I love this:<br /><br />"If we plow though a manuscript, not caring of the words that come out, are we practicing to be bad writers?"<br /><br />Very thought-provokingKell Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18089691866850131698noreply@blogger.com