http://www.hownottowrite.com/thoughts-on-writing/spending-your-words/ If you're reading this, you're not writing. Obvious but true. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.hownottowrite.com/thoughts-on-writing/spending-your-words/#comment-23 editor Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:26:53 +0000 http://www.hownottowrite.com/thoughts-on-writing/spending-your-words/#comment-23 Glad you liked the post, Kat! (btw, your site is very inspiring!) Glad you liked the post, Kat! (btw, your site is very inspiring!)

]]> http://www.hownottowrite.com/thoughts-on-writing/spending-your-words/#comment-22 The Faerie Kat Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:45:30 +0000 http://www.hownottowrite.com/thoughts-on-writing/spending-your-words/#comment-22 I'm glad I happened upon this post, because it reminded me that some of the best prose and poetry I ever wrote (25+ years ago in college) was really more like recording the oral tradition of storytelling that I learned at my Grandfather’s knee. There is an artistry in telling stories out loud that develops a writer’s distinctive and individual voice like nothing else; and tales told over and over again become finely tuned vehicles that encapsulate and convey a distilled essence. Perhaps skilled speech isn’t the same as “talk,” and I do read more than any of my personal acquaintances, but I’ve experienced the negative effect of losing my “voice” by reading too many other “voices” along with too much material in a genre anathema to the style I want to resume. I see now I need to revere my oral storytelling skills and let them guide my creative process. Thanks for helping me achieve this breakthrough. Faerie blessings. I’m glad I happened upon this post, because it reminded me that some of the best prose and poetry I ever wrote (25+ years ago in college) was really more like recording the oral tradition of storytelling that I learned at my Grandfather’s knee. There is an artistry in telling stories out loud that develops a writer’s distinctive and individual voice like nothing else; and tales told over and over again become finely tuned vehicles that encapsulate and convey a distilled essence. Perhaps skilled speech isn’t the same as “talk,” and I do read more than any of my personal acquaintances, but I’ve experienced the negative effect of losing my “voice” by reading too many other “voices” along with too much material in a genre anathema to the style I want to resume. I see now I need to revere my oral storytelling skills and let them guide my creative process. Thanks for helping me achieve this breakthrough. Faerie blessings.

]]> http://www.hownottowrite.com/thoughts-on-writing/spending-your-words/#comment-21 Bill Leavy Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:52:43 +0000 http://www.hownottowrite.com/thoughts-on-writing/spending-your-words/#comment-21 I find talking about my stories helpful, but I can see how you might talk too much about them. I find talking about my stories helpful, but I can see how you might talk too much about them.

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