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Diane
Mary
Jennifer
Suzanne
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M- I think that my writing comes in a very- I don’t do drafts… It is written in a 20 minute period…
J- I have more extraversion… Writing is a process of discover. I start with an image, a feeling, or a scene… On the blog, it isn’t always like that, but I usually edit a lot…
S- I usually have a good idea and if I can’t keep it in my head, I sit down and write it… I get the idea, get it out, and I can go from there…
D- Does your writing come out like Mary’s, Suzanne?
S- Usually it’s temporarily planned, and it’s like a temp hard drive in my brain, and I have to transfer it to something secure…
D- do you think that blogging is more contemporary?
J- It depends… If I am working on a blog post- it’s usually spontaneous. If it’s a short story- I’ll work on it for 6 months… One thing that I like to thing about editing.. .Is that editing is a creative act, and there’s definitely a time that you have to quiet those gremlins that say, “this sucks!” In the editing phase, it’s… just re-witing and re-creaitng, and it’s like moldoing clay. I really like it!
S- I just finished an MFA and I did it because of blogging. One of my old teachers spoke about the pleasure of editing. And it allows me to re-write things and it doesn’t give me all the pressure of trying to get everything out there…
M- I am kinda like the ghetto writer in the group, so I can teach and have some hot students in my class *laughter*… I was a print writer for many years…
D- How many of you were writers? Print? Magazines? Video? Podcasts? I was a print writer… My first piece was published in a newspaper in 1975, before many people were born. I only started my blog last year, and that was a huge learning curve… I am now struggling with video, but today, we’re talking about writing. Suzanne, how did a blog prepare you to writing a book?
S- It was an activity that I enjoyed doing… It gave me freedom. I started blogging in 2005, but I began hearing people that my writing had improved… Writing is a generative activity- the more you do it, the more better you become! The more I began writing, the more I began doing freeform things… As my writing improved, opportunities came my way, as well… If I didn’t start blogging, I don’t think that I would have had the discipline to do a book…
M- the biggest thing that you can get out of this session is if you are writing everyday, it helps you become a better writer because you are practicing … Good Books: “Seducing the Demon” and “On Writing” and “Bird bite Bird”
J- I disagree that oyu have to write everyday, but for me I cannot do all of that work… Sometimes I get writer’s block… What helps me is to take a break once in a while.
D- As a writer, you do a lot of beating yourself up. Who had the inner editor that still speaks to them? I actually talked to a therapist about this inner voice, so what you have to do is befriend the voice and ask it to help you…. I have now befriended the inner editor. Does anyone have any other coping strategies for the inner editor.
Question: I call mine the Itty Bitty Shitty Committtee. Ine day I was in an art store and I found these ugly monsterhead that are now sitting on my computer and they are my itty bitty shitty commitee when they talk crap about my writing; I look up and laugh.
Question: I think you have to embrace your writing. Sometimes my shitty writing is better than most peoples’ good writing.
Question: My inner editor is a very mean person, and if I ever want to make her shut up, and I’ll start erasing it with any sort of emo blurb into my mind, and that would be really, really good writing. I OWN YOU inner editor!
Questions: Sometimes that is mine, I write all of the stuff that she says to me, and she’s gone when I hit delete.
D- I built a whole career about
