Trying, trying, to put words to keyboard and move a story along. Reading, for structure and dialogue. Planning....I feel as eager to do it as I was to clean up my clothes and my closet....and I was really itching to do that.
Our writing teacher gave us a handout, a charming, inspiring essay called "Comes a Pony" by Kate DiCamillo, author of Because of Winn-Dixie and other beloved books. Especially this part:
Part of writing is what Raymond Carver called "being at your station," showing up daily for your work, in spite of your moods or your health or your belief that the seemingly fickle muse has passed you by or is perched elsewhere, on a more deserving writer's desk. You will find reference to this, the need to do your work in spite of everything, in most manuals on writing....What you will not, however, find in the manuals on writing is a discussion of the central mystery of the whole undertaking, an acknowledgment that writing is some powerful amalgam, a potent stew of ego and defiance and desperation and magic and faith...and it is something that we will never fully understand.
Good night.
TCOY
Our writing teacher gave us a handout, a charming, inspiring essay called "Comes a Pony" by Kate DiCamillo, author of Because of Winn-Dixie and other beloved books. Especially this part:
Part of writing is what Raymond Carver called "being at your station," showing up daily for your work, in spite of your moods or your health or your belief that the seemingly fickle muse has passed you by or is perched elsewhere, on a more deserving writer's desk. You will find reference to this, the need to do your work in spite of everything, in most manuals on writing....What you will not, however, find in the manuals on writing is a discussion of the central mystery of the whole undertaking, an acknowledgment that writing is some powerful amalgam, a potent stew of ego and defiance and desperation and magic and faith...and it is something that we will never fully understand.
Good night.
TCOY
- Boot camp in the dome.
- Watched the old "Psycho" on retro TV with H., Fig and Sug.
- Hot bubble bath.
- Out to lunch with Figgy @ Sandwich Theory. We had a chance to talk.
- Made bolognese sauce from a Giada recipe; slow to simmer, and I added a splash of French red wine....yum. Also made H. a vegetarian sauce he liked.
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