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Dec. 15th, 2003 04:16 am
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The Le Guin paper is at around 2500 words, which is about 500 shy of the theoretical minimum. There's a bit more I need to add, but much else and I'll just be babbling. So I'll get my 2-2.5 hours of sleep tonight, go take my exam, go listen to Ann babble about the end of Script Analysis, go get my crown done, and then come home and finish Le Guin. Then most likely sleep for hours, and get up on Tuesday and bang my head against that Shakespeare paper I've had left over from spring.

Man. I am so ready for it to be, like, Thursday. I'm beat.

Date: 2003-12-17 07:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] narquelion.livejournal.com
The thing is, I think the main difference between my good writing and your good writing is the amount of time I put into it. I don't know if this comes through, I've not done enough writers' workshops and etc. to get too many second opinions, but when I read my work, even once I get the right words I can feel the struggle of producing them. They don't read the same as inspiration-struck-here. I'm still wondering whether that's in the work itself or just one of those differences between reader and author perception of it.

This is not too important in nonfiction. I'm experimenting with dodging it in fiction by having a narrator dysfunctional enough that the strained-ness fits. Which it seems makes me happier, whether anyone else notices it or not.

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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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