Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Nov 02 2009
Alligator roll writing
There are two unread books waiting for me on a shelf. I bought them earlier this year, but when not busy with other things I have a tendency to think I should be writing instead of reading books. I read 2-4 story books a day as a child/teen and kept librarians busy looking for more words. I never imagined that one day I would think of reading as some guilty pleasure. I've thought about this a lot lately and I realize that this sort of thing makes it even more important that I write as though every word was a moment of heaven for those reading it. Each word has to lead to the next word as though it was inevitable and suspenseful at the same time. If I waste readers' time when they have so little time to read, I deserve it if they dump my story on the ground in favor of some other story that gives them what they want. I'm picturing, on an emotional level, an alligator roll, in which every moment of a story grabs the reader and takes them for a spin that they recover from only later when they realize they've escaped after a whole wild ride of a story flashed through their mind and heart.
posted at: 10:15 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
There are two unread books waiting for me on a shelf. I bought them earlier this year, but when not busy with other things I have a tendency to think I should be writing instead of reading books. I read 2-4 story books a day as a child/teen and kept librarians busy looking for more words. I never imagined that one day I would think of reading as some guilty pleasure. I've thought about this a lot lately and I realize that this sort of thing makes it even more important that I write as though every word was a moment of heaven for those reading it. Each word has to lead to the next word as though it was inevitable and suspenseful at the same time. If I waste readers' time when they have so little time to read, I deserve it if they dump my story on the ground in favor of some other story that gives them what they want. I'm picturing, on an emotional level, an alligator roll, in which every moment of a story grabs the reader and takes them for a spin that they recover from only later when they realize they've escaped after a whole wild ride of a story flashed through their mind and heart.
posted at: 10:15 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
