Good writers, or so I am impressed, start each paragraph with a sentence that sums up the paragraph. Thank Got the author of Stolen Focus is a good writer by that standard. It enabled me to skip sections of having Covid and note talking face to face with people. I get the gist of what he was saying. Two chapters down, 12 or so to go.
A few weeks ago Keep on Truckin’ Mike asked if we prepared our One Typed Page or just sat down and winged it. I stated that I just dove in. For that matter I do not even read what I have written. I do read the highlighted words when I import them into my blog post. I need to confirm what word they chose a, the, “correct” version is indeed so. So I read the misspelled words and the end of each paragraph to ensure I put the line and paragraphs where they belong. This canes to mind from my experience of reading a few lines into a piece before I realized that it was written it. I will give it a year and then read it. It was a habit of many photographers Or do not look at a photograph for a year. I am referring to art photographs here.
Speaking with a friend recently he commented that his wife did not do much crafty like stuff because she thinks she cannot draw. Does that sound familiar to you? As in you, yourself? Inspired by this talk I hunted down my copy of Syllabus by Lynda Barry. What is that? From the book itself:
The Unthinkable Mind
What it is
Write what you see
Making Comics
It is a book about, well, remembering and making stuff from those bits of memories you have. You do make a comic book as part of the class she describes so you need to write a story and make drawings to illustrate it. But you, every one of you, can do it. Syllabus is also a thing that is part of every class what it plans to do. You get it all and a lot of side stories to liven things up and teach you a bunch.
— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm :: 2022-04-24