TheBanyanTree: On Writing

[auntiesash]

Minecraft, eh?

You should check out my labyrinth sometime.  Huge reproduction of the
Chartres labryinth.  It's cool.  Visible from space.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Laura <wolfljsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 Jun 2011 at 9:47, Monique Colver wrote:
>
> > But to be a writer and not be a hobbyist, I have to make myself sit down
> > every day and write. I may not feel like it. Inspiration may elude me.
> > Words may trickle through my brain haphazardly, waiting in vain for
> > something to alight on, and I may feel that a rousing good game of Plants
> > vs. Zombies would be more fun.
> >
> > Which it would, which is why no one pays me to play Plants vs. Zombies.
> > (Which is really a shame, because I'm quite good at it.)
>
> Oooh, me too!  I'm an excellent PvZ player.  I've won the whole game
> several times, and
> have won nearly all the awards, even the silly ones, like win all the roof
> scenarios with no
> catapult plants.
>
> Y'all have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?  Oh, well.  See, that's
> why I'm not a
> writer.  I've got lots of things I'd rather do besides write.  PvZ,
> Minecraft, Zuma, Spider
> Solitaire.  Heck, I'll even stoop as low as to throw the ball or the
> frisbee for the dogs, should
> they so desire, and they always so desire.
>
> But I don't enjoy writing so much.  It strains my brain. Sometimes I get a
> writing bug stuck in
> my brain, and I have to write to get it out, but even that isn't what I'd
> call enjoyable.  It's
> more like scratching a bad case of poison ivy - you can't NOT do it, but it
> doesn't really feel
> "good".
>
> I used to write a lot, when the kids were little.  I'd put them to bed, and
> in the quiet of the
> evening, all the cute little things they'd done throughout the day would
> flood my brain, and
> I'd have to write them all down, lest they get lost in time and space, and
> forgotten forever.
>
> Or sometimes, I'd go out to do some mundane chore, like taking out the
> trash, and get
> caught up in the cool of the night, or the flickering permanence of the
> stars, or the fury of
> the wind and storms, and those feelings would rush out of my fingers and
> onto the paper.
> Er... screen.
>
> Now I find that most of what I write is whinging, and I don't want to be
> known as a whinger.  I
> guess I am a whinger, but I don't want to be known for it. So I write and
> delete.  Once it's
> written out, I find I don't need it any more.
>
> I suppose I'd make a better editor than a writer.  I can always pick apart
> other people's
> writing.  Hmmm... actually, I think I'd be a proof-reader.  It has been
> told to me that editors
> do much more than mere proof-reading, and that might take too much brain
> power.  Yeah,
> I'll just proofread your stuff.  That way, I don't have to think very hard,
> and I can show you
> how much smarter I am than you.  I like that. I must, I spend hours
> proof-reading other
> people's posts on FaceBook, and thinking what idiots they must be to want
> to show off to the
> world their incompetence (heh, heh - spell check wants to change that to
> "incontinent") with
> the English language.
>
> When they make mistakes, it's because they're idiots.  When I make the same
> mistakes, it's
> a typo.
>
> <yawn>  Sorry, what were we talking about?  Oh, never mind.  I have a house
> to build in
> Minecraft.
>
> --
> Wolfie
> wolfljsh at gmail.com
>
>


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