I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977
Everyone can write, it just takes a little practice to get good at it. You can start out by following a recipe, follow the step by step instructions, be sure to include the right amount of all the ingredients, in the right order! This will get you going. Then you have to add a little personal flair, put in a little of your own 'secret sauce", and exercise working with your weak points, they will never get better if you don't, lift those pens and wiggle those fingers in a nice little dance on the keyboard. Don’t have any fear, if you need a little time to think, be sure to take it! After all that’s where writing comes from in the first place, your mind, thinking, your research, your thoughts and ideas. If those aren’t there…. Then you are just doodling, and that’s fine…it’s called pre-writing in high society, but then when your mind kicks back into gear, rev up those motors, give it the gas! And go baby go! Cause sometimes you run out of gas, and there ain’t nobody goin' to help push ya up the next hill, you got to build up your momentum….
..and that’s how you write! 'dat’s the process..now go and do it! don't be shy, everything is going to be just fine.
I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard American Novelist and Screenplay writer
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
Hi Robert, or should I call you Doc, also?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I think that the reason most people don't bother to write is that they're afraid. Once you write something down, it seems so final, as it's there for everyone to see, critique and judge for all time. Although most people don't admit it, I think that writing can rank up there with public speaking as people's biggest fears. So I think that when we're all telling people to write, we're also telling people to be fearless.
You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay, you can call me "Doc", or hey you!, just don't call me late for supper!
ReplyDeleteYeah, and fear is BAD people! kill it, it's absolutely no good, get out there and do some public speaking people, do a lot of writing,some more FEAR genocide. Put your mark into eternity, you are someone special, you could be all that you can be....so why don't we... it's that fear stuff, self-doubt, mental atrophy, come on people live a little, have some fun, share and the world will shine for you..kill fear, go out and do it to it!
did that sound like a commercial? hope not.
Thanks Lila, stop by and say hi every now and then, it's a pleasure to have you as a friend and fellow rambler! ramble on!