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By: Engagement 3 - Deeper « In 2 Deep

Engagement 3 - Deeper « In 2 Deep — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:25:37 +0000

[...] over at Takuin’s blog, we were discussing this flow in comments under 2 of his recent posts. He had recently written on [...]

By: Davidya

Davidya — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:40:01 +0000

I took a short writing course and they said the same. Just write. Do the editing later. Spell checkers help me let that go too (laughs) Helps it flow, but it also helps you get the little one out of the way.

Cutting the rope is the allowing. It frees you to move forward. It does not prevent you from going back but rather opens, frees you. On the other hand, once you have released, if you were to go back it would not be the same. because you have changed.

By: takuin

takuin — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:28:40 +0000

Hey Mark. Nice to see you over here.

Go ahead and cut it, but if it makes you feel better, carry it around with you for a bit. Eventually, you’ll get tired of carrying the damn thing and you’ll just throw it away.

A good writing lesson you might have heard is, Write for the trash can. It is liberating for some to write apart from the idea that the words have to be good. Just let go and fly. Get black on white.

Johnny Mercer, and several other top songwriters from that generation, used the same principle for songwriting. When I was at Berklee, one of my favorite instructors did the same thing.

Write with the idea of the subject (you may need it), but without the idea of greatness (you won’t need it).

Thanks for stopping in. See you soon.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:18:56 +0000

Takuin,

Do I really have to cut the rope.:) That seems so freeing. No going back is there? I like where you say write for yourself. I think that’s what keeps me going on my blog.The traffic I get to my blog is starting to pick up. But it’s mainly for myself that I write.

By: Davidya

Davidya — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:47:44 +0000

I took a marketing for artists program about 12 years ago. One of the exercises was to create a ‘master resume’ – basically a listing of everything we had ever done. Had to dig through the old archives and discovered quite a few gems I had forgotten about. Silence was one. Last year, a couple of friends observed that I had lots of others art up but none of my own. Some of that old writing and art had a meaning I didn’t expect. Interestingly, I’m drafting a few posts around that at the moment – meaning and engagement…

By: takuin

takuin — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:36:54 +0000

Hey Davidya, I found a few other pieces as well, but none of them seem to be appropriate for the site.

I’ll take a look around to see if anything else is out there.

By: Davidya

Davidya — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:59:52 +0000

Very nice! Would have been fun to read in film school, but that was before you wrote it. Perhaps less foreshadow and more the presence always present. What you are spoke, just clearer now. Always clearer.