Personal blog of christian
writer & fallible mom
Katy McKenna Raymond
in Kansas City, Missouri
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WordServe Literary
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- As with everything in life, balance is key.
- Slow down, you move too fast…
- Yeah, I know. I have issues.
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Word Order
Novelist T.C. Boyle says this about writing:
"First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something."
Some days, I look at what I've got and think it's still nothing. But then I remember author Jean Auel, who said she'd writtten over a million words towards what would become "Clan of the Cave Bear," but still didn't have a story.
Then I remember what author and humorist Liz Curtis Higgs says. "I can talk two hours without a subject." What if I can write eight months without a theme?
So. I don't exactly have nothing. Of course, it remains to be seen if I have something more than 80,000 words that just happen to have never been put together in this precise order before.
Oh, well. Back to ripping and betraying...
Posted by Katy on 12/02/03 at 01:24 PM
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