i love that Virgil. its how i feel after writing a sentence or phrase i really like.
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i love that Virgil. its how i feel after writing a sentence or phrase i really like.
I always tell Toni that punctuations put in their right places can mean the difference between right and wrong, and you certainly don't want to be misinterpreted by the others. Commas, colons, semi-colons, quotation marks are put where they're meant to to involve clear thought and phrasing.
Toni is learning. I just sometimes tell her to edit some of her posts to correct punctuational errors. :nod:
What a good sister/teacher you are Lain:)
I love the "Eats,Shoots,and leaves"/ "Eats shoots and leaves" example of the importance of punctuation.
Ehh - "Eats, shoots and leaves" has gotten so much repeated use that it's lost its novelty.
My apologies for being unclear - I was using "latest masterpiece" sarcastically to refer to any piece I'm working on in general. :blush:
I suppose it has been overused...ah well, still a valid example. Glad to hear you're at least not lacking confidence about your writing there:p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
decided to pick a couple more up before heading off to bed. As much as i would like to spend another 6 hours on LitNet, cant be a vampiress forever :p
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
i found this both amusing and very, very touching. I felt an incredible attraction to the last part of this quote....i dont really know why.Perhaps it will come to me in the morrow.
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Clarification of writing has always been my greatest challenge, i like to call the early stuff "brain vomit":lol: But when you show it to someone and they GET it, its a feeling of self-worth unlike any other...
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Originally Posted by dramasnot6
Yeah, when the others respond the way you hope they would, there really is no greater joy..
Further digging into dusty, almost forgotten books...
On Writing
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting or music does. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. - Truman Capote
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It is not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them - T.S. Eliot
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Style only comes after long hard practice - William Styron
Why Do You Write?Quote:
We are all apprentices, in a craft where no one ever becomes a master - Ernest Hemingway
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself - E. B. White
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Mine is a standard that has to be met - William Faulkner
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I write for it. For the sheer pleasure of it.- Eudora Welty
Writing Conditions
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All you need, is a room without any particular interruptions - John Dos Passos
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I enjoy working in the morning, as soon as the first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write - Ernest Hemingway
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The ideal view for daily writing, is the blank brick wall of a cold storage warehouse. - Edna Ferber
Read
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Read, read, read...Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it is not, throw it out the window. - William Faulkner
I'm not sure this actually belongs in this thread.
It's from "Tradition and the Individual Talent," and I like it very much.
~T.S. EliotQuote:
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
On the subject of intuitive music:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
http://www.myspace.com/lehospitalrule
This is my friend, who composed those songs and played every single intrument you hear on those recordings, despite knowing no more about musical theory than a caffeinated cat. Perhpas this subject deseves its own thread.
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Originally Posted by Virgil
why hasn't the world produced more shakespeares if "nothing comes from nothing"? the ability to write is as innate a talent as the accuracy and strength of a professional quarterback. sure, cultivation is necessary, but the predisposition for greatness is already there, etched in a person's DNA. a hard pill to swallow for many---shattering the "democratic" ideal that we all start out on an equal footing and progress the same. in his Tempting of America, former supreme court us justice nominee (& genius) Robert Bork called this 'nothing comes from nothing' notion a happy dream from happy dreamers. :D
I've got a quote that seems relevant to this. It's from Giambattista Vico's Scienza Nuova
It's only an appeal to authority on my part, but I do consider Vico an authority.Quote:
In every pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but in poetry he who lacks native ability cannot succeed by technique.
"Intuitive" - not the same as "born with," is it?
inuitive - using or based on what one feels to be true without concious reasoning, instinctive.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
No, not quite.
Thought so. Thanks.