Annie Dillard is an author who I find can utilize metaphors like no other author I have encountered before and she seems to enjoy doing so, yet inevitably gets her objective across crystal clear. She has left me with embracing the process of creative writing instead of fearing the changes to ones own personal writings that are necessary to achieve completion.
In the final chapters of Anne's book, she emphasizes several vital points that should help anyone who is attempting to write with creativity. Anne says that one must write in a very plain atmosphere so the "imagination can soar" and also makes an analogy that when writing, you should "aim for the chopping block" stated to mean go right to the heart of the matter. Do not beat around the bush but take a stand on whatever point is driving you at the time of its origin.
I enjoyed reading her positions on writing very much because it gave a glimpse of how someone who is on such an acclaimed level of writing faces the same fears that we all do when creating. We need to just forge ahead and let the words land where they may. Who knows, anything can happen
Hi Charlie, I think it is a great point to write in a very plain atmosphere. If you have less distractions you can have more time to think about other things. When I was in elementary school I used to go sit outside at a pond in the evening and either write or read. I think that kind of setting is a good way to clear the mind and just write what you want. She may not mean outside, but a plain atmosphere probably has different meanings for other people.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see that probably all writers especially the more acclaimed ones have the same fears as more amateur writers do.
Amen Chelsea. As I found out while writing this weeks drama assignment, if I have too many outside distractions, it definitely shows in my work. Thanks for reading my post.
ReplyDeleteVery motivational Charlie, Very motivational lol...She really said a lot of good stuff and bottom line in writing, we write to take chances. Chances that what we write will be good, chances that what we write will be liked by others, and the chance that as a whole we are satisfy with our final piece. Truly it is something to sit back and think that all the feelings we have in putting together a piece of work, greater writers of the past and present have felt the same exact thing. So we are normal lol...Being creative to me, can be a hard task even in the most quiet atmosphere. I just feel sometimes that no matter how hard I want to write, the flow that I need is not going to come out of me until its ready lol..
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