I feel about my writing the way Jess feels about his drawing

[shannonmariah]

    "You should draw a picture of Terabithia for us to hang in the castle," Leslie said.
    "I can't." How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page? "I just can't get the poetry

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[audrawilliams]

It's so funny what strikes different people different ways. My eyes totally slide off those words, I had to make myself read it. It appeals to me not at all!

[shannonmariah]

Well, it's the message that struck me, not the writing. The message that Jess feels like he wants to draw but he just can't do the magic of life justice. That's how I feel.

Yanno?