False Starts
I'm writing a piece for The Nation. I can't say much about it (that would be giving it away), but my hope is that it will be the best thing they've ever read. They'll have to publish it, send a handsome check my way, and invite me to be the newest permanent member of their staff. Before you know it I'll be taking on O'Reilly.
Yeah. Eh-hem.
In reality, I've been dicking around (can I say that?) with the article for days now and I feel like a second grader trying to get the cursive alphabet right. Incompetent, in other words. Which makes me wonder: Do you feel this way? Let's commiserate. Tell me what false starts you're struggling with these days and I'll elaborate on mine. Maybe we can help each other.
R J Woerheide
Editor in Chief
Yeah. Eh-hem.
In reality, I've been dicking around (can I say that?) with the article for days now and I feel like a second grader trying to get the cursive alphabet right. Incompetent, in other words. Which makes me wonder: Do you feel this way? Let's commiserate. Tell me what false starts you're struggling with these days and I'll elaborate on mine. Maybe we can help each other.
R J Woerheide
Editor in Chief
posted by Robert Woerheide at 4:47 PM
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WE all dick around when we start to write. False starts are part of the deal. Which is why so few of us actually write anything at all. Whic may also be part of the reason why the written word, the consiered written word, is poo-pooed these days. Get rid of all that hard stuff. Don't, oh please, do not make me think!
To get beyond false starts? Promise yourself that you will do something really horrible, like call Bill O'Reilly and tell him how great he is. Promise yourself you will do this unless you can come up with 300 words really fast. Do I do this? No. I threaten myself with cleaning the toilets.
Sue
Sue, Spell check catches "considered". And cleaning toilets is a ritual that comes between creative word-ing and boring writing. Books can result, or poems or letters to sick friends. 300 words fly by. RRM
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