Ugh. I am so dragging butt this morning.
It's bad, bad, bad. Sorta like some energy-stealing troll snuck in the house last night and carried it all off. I was left a slimy slug and I had much bigger plans for my day.
Onward I trudge, and since I'm so tired you're getting the honest me today. You know that person? The one who lacks filters and blurts out things she really shouldn't blurt out in public? Yep. It's that me today. :-) Enjoy!
I'm reading The Fire In Fiction by Donald Maass. So far I like it much better than any other writerly instruction book. Let me tell you why: He uses examples of books that I like and that do exactly what he said they would do. Most of the writer instruction books use crappy examples leaving me lost and thinking, "I don't see what you're saying here because this passage stinks and it's horribly overwritten."
Already, his ability to get in my head and make me understand what he wants has made Panthan's Abyss much, much better.
It's taken me several years to be able to read his work. The problem was psychological. I didn't have a thing against him at all. It was this writer chick I knew and she quoted him all the time. See, she was an evil lady. Her writing was good, but as a person she was just... well, let me just say I've yet to meet a meaner person. And no, this has nothing to do with her ripping my own work to shreds, because she didn't do that. She was just really nasty.
So it was about transference, which was completely unfair to our good Mr. Maass, but something I couldn't help. Every time I would attempt to even think about him, she would pop up in my head and I'd get sick to my stomach. Yeah. Really. She was that bad. I have no idea if she's published now, don't care, but I felt it was time I attempt a Maass book once again.
It seems the smoke has cleared and I'm able to see him all on his own. :-) This makes me oh, so happy, because I want to keep growing with my writing and he seems like he'd be really good at helping me.
Onward I trudge, and since I'm so tired you're getting the honest me today. You know that person? The one who lacks filters and blurts out things she really shouldn't blurt out in public? Yep. It's that me today. :-) Enjoy!
I'm reading The Fire In Fiction by Donald Maass. So far I like it much better than any other writerly instruction book. Let me tell you why: He uses examples of books that I like and that do exactly what he said they would do. Most of the writer instruction books use crappy examples leaving me lost and thinking, "I don't see what you're saying here because this passage stinks and it's horribly overwritten."
Already, his ability to get in my head and make me understand what he wants has made Panthan's Abyss much, much better.
It's taken me several years to be able to read his work. The problem was psychological. I didn't have a thing against him at all. It was this writer chick I knew and she quoted him all the time. See, she was an evil lady. Her writing was good, but as a person she was just... well, let me just say I've yet to meet a meaner person. And no, this has nothing to do with her ripping my own work to shreds, because she didn't do that. She was just really nasty.
So it was about transference, which was completely unfair to our good Mr. Maass, but something I couldn't help. Every time I would attempt to even think about him, she would pop up in my head and I'd get sick to my stomach. Yeah. Really. She was that bad. I have no idea if she's published now, don't care, but I felt it was time I attempt a Maass book once again.
It seems the smoke has cleared and I'm able to see him all on his own. :-) This makes me oh, so happy, because I want to keep growing with my writing and he seems like he'd be really good at helping me.