tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961986208219275679.post4210214683526441728..comments2024-03-05T06:09:38.554+00:00Comments on chaosmos - out of chaos comes order: Why the writing never stopsNess Harbourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07370427313780759711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961986208219275679.post-20183731609664318942011-06-07T09:28:42.036+01:002011-06-07T09:28:42.036+01:00Thank you Jen for such faith in my writing...am no...Thank you Jen for such faith in my writing...am not sure I share the same thoughts but then does any writer about their own work?<br /><br />I love the idea of stories being butterflies.<br /><br />See you on the 25th my friend xxNess Harbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07370427313780759711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2961986208219275679.post-41782165732209213132011-06-05T22:55:55.360+01:002011-06-05T22:55:55.360+01:00This made me think of a character Nick is always t...This made me think of a character Nick is always telling me about - Joseph Grand in The Plague by Albert Camus, who never gets beyond the first sentence of the book he is trying to write. He can never reach perfection, so he never gets any further than that one line. Books are like full stops for an author - an end point to a creative moment. And the more creative moments an author has, hopefully the better the next one becomes. Look at Pullman - a truly great writer, yet one who doesn't like to acknowledge his very earliest work. I totally get how you feel but as someone who hasn't actually managed to complete my novel yet I just wanted to remind you that doing so is such a huge achievement in its own right. And it is also a platform to create something even better - though that is not to say that what you have written isn't already good or even great (must get on and read it & tell you!). You can't achieve in your first novel what you can achieve with your 20th - or at least I don't think so. It is a strange thing, the written word & how concrete it is. I guess stories are a bit like butterflies - once you pin them down on a page you can see so much of its beauty, but it will never quite match the glorious beauty of a butterfly freely in flight - just as our written version will quite match up to the story in our head. That is because we are translating it from our imagination - always a so much more skilled than the part of the brain able to distill it into words! Be proud that you have achieved a full stop. Be proud that you have put something into the world - a translation of your own amazing thoughts - that other people can absorb and enjoy. And be proud that your hard work has provided you with a learning experience that you can use to be an even better writer than you are now. And you are already a very good writer - something most people who want to write never even achieve.Jennoreply@blogger.com