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meg_evonne:

--- Quote from: Philliph on October 02, 2009, 12:46:48 AM ---Whoah whoah whoah whoah!
Hold up!
Never send me a 1st. i haven't even gotten past that before my world went concave. thats ridiculous. i write in first. i hope editors don't really mind 1st...I'll continue reading what you wrote.
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Actually, I should have been more explicit.  This particular editor, that others learn from and respect is a 'literary' editor.  She never wanted to see 1st as it bespoke the 'lower classes' of commercial writers.  She also would never want a romance or a sci fi to sully her desk.  Since I'm not interested in ending up on her desk, and if I did, I would hope that my manuscript who fart loud and smelly all over it.  :-)   


--- Quote from: paynesgrey on October 12, 2009, 10:29:49 PM ---Yup.  Most people can't be creative when they have to force it.  I can draw and paint quite well, pieces that are photorealistic in style, morbid, creepifying and bleak for reasons nobody can really point out.  But I can't draw a stick figure if I don't have "inspiration."  I can't just sit down and say "I'm going to paint a '5'." and have anything happen.

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But if you really needed to get something done, I would imagine that you would doodle and fiddle until inspiration opened up again, right?  That's what writing exercises are for.  They can open your creativity that got jammed somewhere in the process.  One easy exercise that a workshop instructor used was to take a letter and five minutes.  Write as many words that start with that letter as you can in those five minutes--if you're still writing extend your time line.  The sheer act of concentrating on words in any form, frees the writing cells in the brain.  It seems to work.  It has the added feature that instead of writing four or five paragraphs to get where I'm flowing right, I can start right away and have less editing. 

Hugsies paynesgray.  to each their own, has always been a great saying to me. 

Paynesgrey:
Nope, just doesn't work for me unless there's a picture that wants out of my head.  Which is why I couldn't be a professional artist or illustrator... that pesky deadline thing.  My creative process is, unfortunately, rather like the monkeys from Kipling's Jungle Book.  Gathering sticks and rocks intending to do great things with them, then forgetting what those things were.  Still, while I couldnt' make a living at it, I can still have fun.

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