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owlectomyHmm. Though I was skeptical that my writing had improved much in the last two years, I've been reading over "Festival of Ghosts," and I have to say: it has. By a lot.
No matter how much advice on writing I read, there's nothing but practice that can really cause improvement. The one thing I've consistently had problems with--what it all comes down to for everyone, I guess--is making what comes out on paper match what I see in my head. And because I saw it so clearly in my head, it truly was hard to tell when I'd been doing it badly.
That doesn't necessarily mean that I'm doing it well now, though I hope it means I'm doing a little better... but it does get me out of feeling like I write novels, and they get rejected, and it's all a pretty pointless endeavour.
No matter how much advice on writing I read, there's nothing but practice that can really cause improvement. The one thing I've consistently had problems with--what it all comes down to for everyone, I guess--is making what comes out on paper match what I see in my head. And because I saw it so clearly in my head, it truly was hard to tell when I'd been doing it badly.
That doesn't necessarily mean that I'm doing it well now, though I hope it means I'm doing a little better... but it does get me out of feeling like I write novels, and they get rejected, and it's all a pretty pointless endeavour.
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Re: Everything we were talking about the other week regarding drawing and writing.
13/12/04 03:36 (UTC)The only thing that concerned me was that, not having reread my older stuff, I assumed that my skill level had stayed pretty constant for the past two years. (Because what have I actually been doing to improve it, besides writing?). If that's not true, then I've got some hope.
Counterexamples, though. Rimbaud wrote all his poetry before he was my age, and he is so cool. But he was also in a dysfunctional love affair the likes of which was made into a terrible Leonardo DiCaprio movie, and never wrote poetry again, so who knows what would've happened if written poetry for longer?