…It’s called “If You Can Talk, You Can Write”. I’ve wanted to be a better…well, no, not better…at more PROLIFIC writer for a long time, and this book finally opened up a new vista for me. See, this is my primary venue for writing, here, and the long emails I compose. The thing that stops me that I realized last night is that I write like someone’s reading it. Wait, back up. Meg saw the book, and thought it’d be good for me. Her thought was that I always write like someone’s reading it, and that’s when it occurred to me that the book addresses inner demons that we all have as blocks to writing. I don’t write like someone’s reading it. I write like someone is reading it AND DOESN’T LIKE IT. And so I spend more time polishing and polishing small bits until I have spent an hour composing an email that’s only as long as what I’ve written here so far. (BTW, this has taken me about 4 minutes to write…*grin*)
So. I will banish my inner demon, and not really *care* what anyone thinks. The only block that I’ll have to writing from now on is spelling, because I’m such an nutcake about spelling. I’m over the top freakish about it. I don’t mind it so much in other people – If it’s wrong, it’s wrong, as long as I get the drift, though I do have a few pet peeves, such as when someone on the DSM list talks about “the breaks on my car are making too much squeeking”… UGH. BRAKES stop your car, and if they fail, they you’ll have lots of BREAKS in the bodywork… 🙂 Oh, and I’m insane about your and you’re and they’re and their. =)
Wow that took but another 2 minutes. Not too shabby… Most excellent! Much Much Better than I usually am capable of.