tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038570905259392998.post6342224845429363604..comments2014-06-13T17:23:59.110-07:00Comments on eatingyourownheart: "To Set a Place for the Muse"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038570905259392998.post-81412699662226851552009-06-27T03:24:58.953-07:002009-06-27T03:24:58.953-07:00Thankyou for that Hayley, it is nice to have your ...Thankyou for that Hayley, it is nice to have your comments here, so don't feel like you're intruding. It's good to have another perspective, and it's interesting to know how you feel about this. I think I do understand how it is that you like this, it has the feel of a lot of contemporary fiction in that the prose is solid and inviting. But I want there to be something more. Obviously thats a bit much to expect from a 20 minute exercise, but i think these exercises have made me see how stuck I am in that one specific style, which is not what I want. It's become a little stylised and souless. Today I'm going to do something different.WillowAllTogetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01619859543485514416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038570905259392998.post-70645611144435919242009-06-27T02:40:22.345-07:002009-06-27T02:40:22.345-07:00I've found my way here from your blog Willow, ...I've found my way here from your blog Willow, and Lianne's too after a conversation about the idea of the 20 minute task, so I hope you don't mind me coming and having a quick read. Or just now contributing to this series of comments as it seems a bit like a private conversaion that I've accidently walked in on, but kept listening all the same - so i feel a weird sense of this isn't a place for me to be. Especailly as i don't ever write anymore.<br /><br />But I loved this particular piece of writing Willow. For me this is the type of writing I really enjoy in a good book. You've said there's nothing real in it, but for me it's the sort of writing which doesn't relate to my life at all and yet I can easily read it and become the person and feel it's as real as anything else. So i suppose maybe that means it is a bit make believe but then i still almost take on all the emotions i attribute to the charater and those emotions are real non-the-less because i feel them. <br /><br />Hmm actually i don't why i've just tried to exlain that as it sounds like a load of poncy shite, but what i mean is i really like it, i could read and read on and on. <br /><br />xxUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07169340596561422466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038570905259392998.post-20123623012959379292009-06-26T12:50:26.278-07:002009-06-26T12:50:26.278-07:00Do it, because, .why not! x
This out of context: ...Do it, because, .why not! x<br /><br />This out of context: <br /><br />has to be essential, but essential in a lot of different waysJust Liannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09987694503128956308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038570905259392998.post-12174496498661279292009-06-26T07:40:13.391-07:002009-06-26T07:40:13.391-07:00I think this year (understandably so) I've bec...I think this year (understandably so) I've become too controlled. I do believe that every sentence has to be essential, but essential in a lot of different ways, and at the moment I feel as though my writing's only working in one of those ways.<br />I guess I just feel a bit sick of the same type of writing all the time, it's not necessarily that I hate the writing itself. I think in my next exercise I'm going to try and do something very at odds with my normal style.WillowAllTogetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01619859543485514416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038570905259392998.post-13479193083378952532009-06-26T06:35:01.608-07:002009-06-26T06:35:01.608-07:00I really like this actually. it feels quite contro...I really like this actually. it feels quite controlled (like a lot of your writing) and maybe thats what you mean but a lot of people would see that as a real strength. its like what you were saying the other day about every sentence being necessary. plus this is the stuff of stories: long, solid, wistful, aching, building stories. i think youre wrong to hate it.xJust Liannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09987694503128956308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038570905259392998.post-55598698425506463102009-06-26T02:15:46.986-07:002009-06-26T02:15:46.986-07:00I hate this. It's too like the type of work th...I hate this. It's too like the type of work that I've got stuck in recently. I'm hating my own writing. There's nothing real in it at all. I want to walk away.WillowAllTogetherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01619859543485514416noreply@blogger.com