When everything feels like it’s going south in one’s life, how does one have the temerity to sit down at the keyboard and keep on filling the white screen with black shapes?
I really want to know. Anyone?
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It’s not always “write, write, write”. I have to stimulate the mind in other ways as well.
One is editing. I love editing. I’m just now getting back into editing other people’s prose, which is a joy for me. It’s like a logic puzzle in English; which is just as well since I am terrible at math.
This is a problem I understand is common with a lot of “creative types” (or lazy types like me.) And that is a shame. I have a huge amount of respect for mathematicians. Especially considering I have a better chance of becoming a unicorn than I do a mathematician it makes the profession all that more mystical to me.
Note: Due to the possible reading audience of more sensitive types (like the Pope), I am substituting the many curse words in this article with the names of fruits.
And thanks for the visit, your holiness.
NOTE: This is, of course, my opinion. If you don’t share it, hooray! It makes our time together more interesting.
My attitude about poetry has shifted over time. At first, I read and wrote nothing but poetry. Then I fell away from poetry and had a lot of scorn for it. Now, I’m slowly coming back around.
With some major caveats.
Yes, this is an important question. I’ve known people who claim that the writing is what’s important, and editing for style and grammar is an unnecessary detail. “What’s important is that the message gets across,” they ask. “Everything else is fiddly-bits,” they claim.
I can’t even begin to address how wrong this is. Wait, that’s not true. I can TOTALLY begin to express how important editing is.
The BIGGEST minutiae 