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Jun 13
It's My Life, Rants Glory Days, history, sister, skill, write, writing 9 Comments
I once again try to write, the mere mechanics of pulling out paper, picking up the pen, has been a struggle for days on end. I have looked over my manuscript that took three years to write and I’ve surmised “What a Hack!” To have submitted to my sister such trash!
But I will, bit by bit, keep sending it page by page. I want to convey, to give thoughts. How good my words flow in my head at times when the pen is not in my hand, or is it only perceived as being so. I am untrained to write. My mind for the most part is a super ball in a 4×4 box.
Why should I write? I ask it over and over. Is it ego? I must say yes. Is it looking for recognition? Yes! Why? I’m nothing special, no great mind. A life not lived in full, as to impart some golden nugget for others to draw from. To nourish and and lift up. Somehow I still crave.
I love the words of gifted writers of history. A well written auto biography. Oh, the gifted of words! I read where Jack London once said, “Inspiration does not come easy. It is coaxed with a club.” If this is so, with me I need a bigger club.
I found in sports, or at least was schooled, ‘practice makes perfect’, which was amended to ‘perfect, perfect practice makes perfect’. If true, the grind of sitting down at least every day to write, as I’m told I should do, will reap little in growth. To practice garbage. Garbage in, garbage out as they say.
My sister Lisa is so gifted in writing, a late bloomer as they say. With formal schooling? Yes, but an innate ability beyond me. I envy her, but am so proud of her. For she gives me encouragement. She gives me an avenue to attempt, when I have little else for self esteem, sense of worth.
I try, the one less than gifted. The hack. Spilling words upon the lines of the page not knowing where much goes except a period. And then not even knowing that for sure. So I will try again, perfect or not, maybe at times raw, but not nearly as raw as my emotions, which I desperately want to say upon the page.
Jun 13, 2010 @ 15:43:16
My dear brother, you are such the flatterer! Don’t sell yourself short nor dis-believe in your abilities. I have faith that one day you will be published. Keep writing, I’ll keep submitting and it will happen.
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Jun 27, 2010 @ 06:27:33
I can understand your feeling, this inner voice which restrains or all work or provides a full imagination, must be able to get along with him.
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Jul 15, 2010 @ 06:12:44
Really nice post, thanks a lot for sharing that
Jul 24, 2010 @ 05:35:25
I think writing is fun once you get started and pass the initial nervousness. I’m cerintaly don’t consider my self a gifted writer. I’m still not so comfortable to share my writing with public. But however, I do keep a personal diary. Once day, I will open that up and share it with my friends. One day…
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Aug 10, 2010 @ 05:11:51
I, myself don’t take as a gifted writer but I understand how writing gave us a great impact to our communication. It is useful as well to write down things in your diary that happens everyday. With writing, I believe that you can, in simple ways, learn how to express your thought and emotion using a pen and paper.
Aug 10, 2010 @ 14:02:00
I believe that if we write of our own experiences and truley express our emotions with honesty and openness, and without pretense, it will resonate with most readers as we are all human and have our own version of those emotions. To communicate clearly so the reader understands is all that is needed rather than to attempt some flowing complexity of style which may actually obscure our meaning instead of enhancing it..
Write on Brotha.
Aug 20, 2010 @ 10:26:15
I also love to write. I do freelance jobs to make money on the internet. its a business you too can also start.
Aug 21, 2010 @ 03:40:11
Writing is a good venue to exercise our brain. It stimulates the neurons in our brains. And Im really proud in saying that people who have higher IQ’s are literary people. Why? Because they think too much. Their thinking capability is equivalent to brilliant Mathematicians and etc.
Aug 31, 2010 @ 08:18:15
Practice makes perfect? Don’t think so. But it definitely makes you better and that’s important.
As for writing you’re way too modest…
If it makes you happy, or help you express yourself, or even sets something straight in your head, you should keep doing this.
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