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Gloria Marlow
Unity Member
Post Number:
1658
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 09:16 am: |   |
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. -Thomas Mann, novelist, Nobel laureate (1875-1955)
What is your opinion on that statement? True or False?
Gloria
The Butterfly Game
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Olen Armstrong
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
415
Registered: 06-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 10:30 am: | |
True
Because it MUST say exACTly what the writer meant to say. Nothing less is allowed.
For other people it's just another way to communicate. No prefection expected.
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Another quote "Writing is easy. You just stare at a blank piece of paper until blood begins to appear on your forehead."
Of course, the mechanics of it are easier for the writer but that's only from study and practise.
Later.
Olen A |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1681
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 02:42 pm: | |
I would say, very true.It's so hard, most of us can't do it!
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3049
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 03:25 pm: | |
Can we all agree that's an absolute truth?
;-P
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1683
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 03:52 pm: | |
I'll agree, if you'll put your tongue back in your mouth.Jeeze, Todd.
Bill Nelson
RISEN, ISBN 1-93301616-4
Behler Publications
Hiding Places, Den of Deception |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
3051
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 04:05 pm: | |
I get a lot of compliments on my tongue...
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Steven Shrewsbury
Unity Member
Post Number:
1343
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 09:10 pm: | |
I disagree.
We write so much we spend time doing it on message boards.
I'd say that is pretty easy.
If one gets obsessed with the CRAFT or the ART of being a writer...mehhhhhhhh
just remember...if the world goes belly up via solar flares or nukes, the only writing folks are ever gonna discover here are Sumerian tablets thousands of years old.
My point?
Relax and don't take this that seriously.
www.stevenshrewsbury.com
GODFORSAKEN
Behler Publications |
Sean D. Schaffer
Awareness Member
Post Number:
14
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 05:39 pm: | |
I think it's true. People who've never done it seem to be brimming with advice on how to go about it when they find out I'm an aspiring writer.
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Frank P. Baron
Hunger Member
Post Number:
65
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 02:45 pm: | |
Writing's easy.
Selling it can be tricky.
www.frankbaron.com |
Tom Elkins
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
349
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 06:32 pm: | |
Writing is easy. Writing well is more difficult.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins |
LA
Unity Member
Post Number:
2152
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 10:57 am: | |
Now, if y'all would ask my husband, he'd tell you he has a new-found respect for my ability to focus long enough to finish a book. He decided that since I got him interested in reading, he'd try his hand at writing, too. (shakes head) Poor guy hadn't a clue. LOL. He's given up on that now. He walked into the room just last weekend when I was chugging away and stared at me. "I just don't see how you do it?" LOL.
As for the truth in the statement of writing being more difficult for the writer, well, yes, it can be. Because we CARE that it's done the right way. Me might be able to churn out the story, but we then go back over and over and over again to make sure it's right. And we have beta readers, and critique groups, and guidelines to follow, word counts, etc. etc. etc.
LA
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