RANT – Creative Writing Class 22.07.08
I’m going to say it bluntly.
It’s like verbal constipation.
Or rather, writers constipation.
Seeing as it all comes out on paper first.
What makes writing great anyway?
Is it the use of big words, people get impressed by big words?
I think I’m just frustrated because the biggest word I know I can’t remember and I’m pretty sure I could only use it in psychology.
Psychoneuroanalytic, or something along the lines. Three words fused together.
I keep feeling like I need to write something brilliant, or that it’s already there waiting to come out but I think it’s got stage fright. Like if it came out maybe it’d change the way everything is right now.
It could be fun? Right? Imagine if this ever became notable. What a joke that would be. If they performed it it’d have to be with malice, rage, frustration, exaggeration.
Why not? But with that you have to wonder how long, how many questions can be asked and responded to with that stupid little three letter word. I dread the day my children learn it. Perhaps I’ll buy a parrot and teach it, it and then, when my children ask why, I’ll stick them in a room together.. and perhaps go clean the toilet to award my efforts.
But kids and that word are a digression from the issue and many years away.
Was there an issue to begin with?
I can’t remember.
Therefore, the point of this conversation/ monologue/ words is that…
Is that…
is that words are words are words are words. Anything can be great if you accept that it is.
However, I don’t accept that this is and it hasn’t cured my writer’s constipation.
Just to be blunt.
I know what you mean. I tend towards believing context is everything and the choice of words you use should depend upon the context you're writing in. It's really not that hard in the end, because it seems like you always know deep down in what type of language something should be written.
ReplyDeleteAlso I get what you mean with
ReplyDelete"I keep feeling like I need to write something brilliant, or that it’s already there waiting to come out but I think it’s got stage fright. Like if it came out maybe it’d change the way everything is right now."
Still struggling with that one personally. But the best stuff I've ever written is when I detach myself from the real world and concentrate on what I'm feeling and move it onto the page.